- [Instructor] A color harmony is a group of colors
that work well together and there are various types
of harmony, but we will take a look
at some essential and you can always explore more later.
In this diagram, we have a color wheel
that I've expanded to include some tints and shades.
This is going to help us with our first harmony, monochrome.
If we choose a hue, let's go with this purple.
We can choose from tints and shades of that hue
to create a monochrome theme.
In practice, we'd choose between three and eight tones
to work with as we have trouble
distinguishing individual tones beyond that.
So there you go, top tip.
Analogous harmonies use neighboring hues
along with their tents and shades,
which you can do with anything, by the way.
And complimentary hues are opposites on the color wheel.
When complimentary colors are placed close to each other,
they can be really, really striking,
but should be used carefully as they can optically vibrate.
So not a good choice for smaller type, ideally.
There are some variations on complimentary colors,
such as a split complimentary that uses hues either side
of the direct compliment.
Pushing that a bit further, we create a triad
or a triadic, to be correct, harmony.
This is technically colors that are 120 degrees apart
on the color wheel as the primary colors are
and if we add a fourth hue to the mix,
we have a tetrad or triadic, made of four points
that could form a square or a rectangle.
Now another top tip is tetrads always include
too warm and too cold hues.
So take care to choose the values of the hues
that you do select.
Five hues forms, a pentagram, and as you can see,
there are plenty of choices there already
and far more to be found also.
The interaction of colors has been the subject
of much investigation over time,
so we've got lots of research on our side.