How Do You Design Harmonious Color Schemes?
You can design a harmonious color scheme by understanding the color wheel and the emotional effects of colors. You can apply this understanding to a color scheme for use in the home, garden or business or for a ceremony when eliciting harmony is more appropriate than eliciting stimulation. You’ll learn which hues are the most harmonious and how to use these hues in monochromatic or analogous color schemes for optimum harmonious effect. Understand how colors work together by using a basic color wheel representation, which can be found on the Color Matters website or in most library books on color theory. You’ll see colors arranged by hue on the color wheel–primary colors (red, blue, yellow) in a triangular formation and secondary colors (orange, green, purple) in an interlocking triangular formation with tertiary colors (such as blue-green, or yellow-orange) between them. Study the effects of colors on the emotions. See that the warmer colors of the color wheel (red and orange) tend to
