Color Theory

Color Wheel
Primary Colors

Red

Yellow Blue
Secondary Colors
Created by mixing two primary
colors.
Red

Orange
Purple

Yellow Blue

Green
Tertiary Colors
created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

Red
Red-orange
Red-Purple

Orange
Purple

Orange-yellow Blue-Purple (indigo)

Yellow Blue

Yellow-green Blue-green
Green
 Color Scheme

Analogous colors
Warna yang berdekatan
Complementary colors
Warna yang saling berhadapan
Split Complementary colors

Warna komplementer dengan 2 warna analog yang berada di

depannya.
 Color Psychology
White
Known for symbolizing light, reverence, purity, truth, snow, peace,
innocence, cleanliness, simplicity, security, humility, sterility, winter,
coldness, surrender, fearfulness, unimaginative, air, death (in Eastern
cultures), life, marriage (in Western cultures), hope, bland, empty (interior).

Black
A multi-dimensional color that can mean classic or new. It typically
symbolized absence, modernity, power, sophistication, formality, elegance,
wealth, mystery, style, evil (such as in films) death (in Western cultures),
fear, emptiness, darkness, seriousness, conventionality, rebellion,
anarchism, unity, sorrow, professionalism, and slimming quality (fashion).

Gray
Symbolize elegance, humility, respect, stability, subtlety, wisdom, old age,
pessimism, boredom, decay, decrepitude, dullness, pollution, strong
emotions, balance, neutrality, mourning, formality.
 Red
Typically symbolizes passion, strength, energy, fire, love, romance, excitement,
speed, heat, arrogance, ambition, power, danger, blood, war, anger, revolution,
radicalism, Communism, aggression, respect, wealth (China) and marriage
(India).

Orange
Typically symbolizes Buddhism, happiness, energy, balance, heat, fire,
enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, arrogance, over-emotion,
warning, danger, autumn, desire. Orange has less intensity or aggression than
red and is calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow. Orange is symbolic of the Royal
family of the Netherlands.

Yellow
Typically symbolizes sunlight, joy, happiness, earth, optimism, intelligence,
idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hazards, dishonesty, femininity, gladness,
sociability, friendship, hazard signs.

Green
Green symbolizes great intelligence, nature, spring, fertility, youth, environment,
wealth, money (US), good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass, aggression,
coldness, jealousy, disgrace (China), illness, greed, Marijuana and drug culture,
life eternal, earth (classical element), sincerity, renewal, growth, health, balance,
harmony, stability, calming, creative intelligence, Islam, and the ordinary.
 Blue
Symbolize seas, men, productive, interior, skies, peace, unity, harmony,
tranquility, calmness, trust, coolness, confidence, conservatism, water, ice,
loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter, depression, coldness,
idealism, air, wisdom, royalty, nobility, Earth (planet), confident, stable.

Purple
Symbolize nobility, envy, sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty,
ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment, arrogance, flamboyance,
mourning, profanity, pride, riches, romanticism (light purple), delicacy (light
purple).

Pink
Sister color of red, but very different in terms of symbolism. It is a
tranquilizing color. Symbolizes spring, gratitude, appreciation, admiration,
sympathy, socialism, feminity, health, love, romance, marriage, joy,
flirtatiousness, innocence and child-like.

Brown
Symbolizes calm, boldness, depth, natural organisms, nature, richness,
rusticism, stability, tradition,, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness,
earth (classical element), and down-to-earth. Brown can stimulate, simplicity,
friendliness, and dependability. Brown is the color of dirt, giving it an earthy,
environmental quality which is popularly coupled with green
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