Color Schemes
Color Schemes
Analogous color schemes use colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
One color is used as a dominant color while others are used to enrich the scheme.
Energy
F7AFB3 FFA8AC F7C4AF FFC0A8 FBDBAC FFDCA8
F15F66 FF5159 F1885F FF8151 F1B75F FFBA51
EA151E FF000B EA5015 FF4700 EA9515 FF9A00
9A0E14 A80007 9A350E A82E00 9A620E A86500
Aqua
BAEDD3 A8FFD4 BAEDED A8FFFF BAD3ED A8D4FF
74DCA8 51FFA9 74DCDC 51FFFF 74A8DC 51A9FF
33CB80 00FF82 33CBCB 00FFFF 3380CB 51A9FF
228654 00A855 228686 00A8A8 225486 0055A8
Sunny
F7D9AF FFDBA8 F7E8AF FFECA8 F7F5AF FFFCA8
F1B55F FFB851 F1D15F FFD951 F1EC5F FFFA51
EA9415 FF9800 EABC15 FFC800 EAE515 FFF900
9A610E A86400 9A7C0E A88400 9A970E A8A400
Red Accents
F6BFB1 FFBAA8 FDC7AA FFC6A8 FDD3AA FFD2A8
EE8062 FF7651 FC8F54 FF8E51 FCA654 FFA551
E64419 FF3600 FB5B04 FF5900 FB7D04 FF7C00
982D10 A82300 A53B03 A83A00 A55203 A85100
Contrast
F6D2B1 FFD1A8 F6D9B1 FFDBA8 F6E1B1 FFE5A8
EEA562 FFA451 EEB462 FFB851 EEC562 FFCC51
EEA562 FFA451 EEB462 FFB851 EEC562 FFCC51
985110 A85000 986010 A86400 987010 A87700
Fantasy
FDC7AA FFCDA8 EDD4BA FFD6A8 EDDABA FFDFA8
FC8F54 FF8E51 DCAB74 FFAE51 DCB674 FFC051
FB5B04 FF5900 CB8533 FF8900 CB9433 FFA300
A53B03 A83A00 865722 A85A00 866122 A86B00
Science
CFC8DE CDC0E6 D6C8DE D8C0E6 DEC8DE E1C4E2
A091BF 9B81CF AF91BF B381CF BD91BF C48AC6
745DA1 6C46B8 895DA1 9046B8 9F5DA1 A953AB
4D3E6A 472F79 5A3E6A 5F2F79 693E6A 6F3771
Sports
F7E4AF FFE8A8 F7EDAF FFF2A8 F7F5AF FFFCA8
F1CB5F FFD251 F1DC5F FFE651 F1EC5F FFFA51
EAB315 FFBD00 EACC15 FFDB00 EAE515 FFF900
9A750E A87C00 9A860E A89000 9A970E A8A400
The raw umber hue is the darkest pigment for color this color I call RCW#36 yellow-
green.
#36 and #1 yellow are side by side at 10 degrees each.
Magenta and green just add their opposite colors to get darker.
RCW tint color wheel is the same as the RGB tint color wheel, only.
The RGB/CMY colorwheel is Not for pigments,
it does not darken as pigment crystals do.
Notice in this table chart how this original crystal matching colorwheel darkens yellow
to warm brown while cyan darkens to cool ult blue.
This chart is available as an RGB and CMYK Pen Palette Tiff Zip. Thank you -
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0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1
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The primary color Yellow in pigments can shade to either a green Cool Dark, like in the
RGB/YMC light system. Or to a red warm dark, like my color wheel has it for
pigments. The color pigment Yellow must be on the warm side for the artist to mix it
with any other warm color. By adding a cool yellow/green pigment to a warm yellow
color you would lessen the intensity of the yellow and make it muddy.
Yellow to Black in the RGB is very similar to Green's dark in both the RGB and CMYK
colorwheels.
The Real Colour Wheel, RCW, is different. Yellow goes to Red's warm dark brown not
green's cool dark.
As in the Titanium crystal Rutile. Link
There are two groups of thinking among the color theorists.
1) One does not have to be an artist to have an excellent understanding of color, it's a
science.
A) Transparent to opaque and handling qualities aren't as important as the final dried
chip color to the non-artist where as with the artist they are paramount. To the current
scientist the computers RGB and CMYK colorwheel is the basis of all knowledge about
color, it runs the presses but needs some tweaking for the artist using pigments to use it.
A) One does have to be an artist to understand how to change colors in the painting to
match the image being painted. An artist is concerned with pigment handling
properties. An artist needs accurate analogous and complementary colors plotted on a
good logical color wheel.
2) A non-artist once said, "Your point about getting darker towards green is not
accurate. Dark yellows and cyan's may look green but they do not change hue - they're
still yellow or cyan after all."
A) I think this is perceptual problem, the thinking of a non-artist color theorist. The
artist in me can see green as there is an appearance of green as yellow darkens to black
in the gamma chart of yellow and also as cyan darkens to black. If it quacks like a
duck..
Printer and plotter artists, don't miss this RGB-CMYK printing comparison.
The RCW Real Color Wheel is the physical crystal color wheel with the properties of
each color crystal getting darker. This matches the elements color in it's natural
progression to dark. Like crystal oxides containing iron they go from yellow to brown.
Since this is so, it makes the RGB/YMC/LAB colorwheel inaccurate for plotting
pigments for the artist to use as a color wheel in the field. Ult blue must be opposite
yellow and plot opposite yellow, like on my wheel which can be just as accurate for
positioning pigments in relationship to each other as simple RGB positioning, only
better.
The new opaque Irgazine yellow is a perfect warm darker yellow, 36RGB#1.6. While
the new Bismuth yellow is the bright full chroma RGB#1.0 The Irgazine yellow has a
very slight duel-tonality and will mix with it's complement ultramarine blue to a dark.
Look at RCW#36.0, Yellow-green and compare it to the primary path to dark for yellow
on the RGB, they look the same. There is no warm yellow path to dark in the RGB, only
a cool path. On the RCW matrix I put them side by side and use the warm path of
yellow as the pure primary yellow and the cool path as Yellow-green's path. Duel-toned
Irgazine Green is a transparent yellow-green, it mixes neutral with dioxzine purple.
Here are some color examples of crystals that the artist would be interested in since
crystals are pigment and chemicals are made with the same elements.
Calcite crystal, [CaCo3], makes the perfect Cyan color with Copper in the Iceland Spar
Crystal, it polarizes to the color Ultramarine Blue. Yellow is made with Iron, and
Magenta is the Sphaerocobaltite Pink Calcite Crystal made with allochromatic Cobalt.
The Calcite Crystal is also a natural polarizing filter.
Quartz, [Si02], Iron Rose Quartz and Manganese Amethyst both touch on the Magenta
color.
Copper makes Green to Cyan Chalcedonie and the opposite color Red Carnelian.
Allochromatic Nickel makes a cool Yellow Chrysoprase Crystal, added Iron makes a
warm yellow to orange Citrine Quartz Crystal.
Iron will make all three primary colors in the crystal Corundum, [A1203], plus making
the secondary colors Red, Ult. Blue and Green. The Red and Green have added
Chromium.
Here are some permanent chemical pigments used in oil, water, fresco and
acrylic paints today. Note that Indian Yellow and Gamboge are hue/color
names, genuine is not available or used.
PERMANENT TRANSPARENT YELLOWS
The RCW Pigment Color Number for Cadmium Yellow Lemon Opaque is:
RCW36#1.0.1, that is the coolest full chroma yellow in the yellow arc.
RCW36#1.0.9, is the warmest yellow in the yellow arc, a tint of Indian yellow
transparent.
RCW36#1.0, is the Pure Yellow arc with10 graduated values getting darker
below it, there are 36 color arcs in all. RCW#13.6 is a 50% top-tone color for
transparent pigments like Magenta.
RCW36#1.0 Yellow happens to have five different pigment color values located
in it. 01 is a tint, 0 is the full mass-tone color, rings 3, 6 and 10 all have
pigments in them.
Brown is the darkest intensity of yellow-greens, yellows and reds. Mix this low
intensity brown with it's opposite color Ultramarine blue to Cyan for a neutral
dark.
White is in the middle of the palette. The top of the palette on the left is
Dioxazine Purple, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Thalo Blue or O.H.
transparent Manganese blue., Turquoise, Opaque Green and Thalo Green on
the right.
The left side goes from Dioxazine Purple to Burnt Umber, Bt. Sienna, Red
Oxide, Yellow Ocher, Naples Yellow (or lead-tin Yellow) to Quinacridone
Magenta at the bottom.
The right side is from Thalo Green on the top, than , Permanent Green Light,
Green Gold, Yellow Green Opaque with Lead Yellow Light at the bottom.
I keep all 37 of these oil pigments below on hand with me, they all have their
special color and pigment properties.
00. Mussini Zinc Yellow, 01. Bellini Lemon Yellow, 02. YYYY, Grumbacher
Cadmium Barium Yellow Pale, 02a. YYYY, Mussini Cadmium Yellow
Lemon, 04. Old Holland Gamboge Lake Extra, 05. Schmincke Mussini
Cadmium Yellow Middle, 06, Old Holland Indian Yellow-Orange Lake
Extra, 06a. Old Holland Indian Yellow Brown Lake Extra, 07. YYYM,
Mussini Cadmium Orange, 08. Rembrandt Chinese Vermilion Extra, 09.
YYMM, Cadmium Red Medium, 10, YMMM, Rembrandt Rose, 11.
MMMM, Danial Smith Quinacridone Magenta, 12. MMMM, Bocour, New
York, Cobalt Violet Phosphate, 13. MMMC, Liquitex Carbazole Dioxazine
Purple, 14. Grumbacher Dioxazine Purple, 15. Ultramarine Violet, 16.
MMCC, Blocks French Ultramarine Blue, 17. Mussini Ultramarine Light,
18. Mussini Cobalt Blue Light, 19. CCCC, Grumbacher Thalo Blue, 20.
CCCY, Rembrandt Blue Green, 21. CCYY, Mussini Phthalo Green, 22.
Mussini Opaque Green Light, 23. Grumbacher Thalo Green Yellow/Side, 24.
Mussini Permanent Green Light, 25. Winsor and Newton Sap Green
permanent, 26. CYYY, Old Holland Yellow-Green Organic Opaque, 27.
Mussini Naples Yellow Light, 27a. Mussini Naples Yellow Deep, 28. Mussini
Yellow Raw Ocher, 29. Mussini Translucent Yellow Oxide, 30. Rembrandt or
Mussini Asphaltum, 31. Mussini Raw Umber, 32. Mussini Burnt Umber, 33.
Mussini Burnt Sienna, 34. Blocks Venetian Red, 35, Rembrandt Chromium
Green Oxide, 36. Grumbacher Green Earth, 37. Mussini Genuine Golden
Green,
Each colors number relates to it's position on the 36 color Real Color Wheel.
These 36 RCW colors get dark just as they do in crystals.
Opposite complement pigments mix dark shadow colors just as nature makes shadows
on sunlit items.
The top color Yellow is the color numbered (1a.) The number (1b) is a darker version of
(1a)
on the way through the dark middle to it's opposite color, (19a) Ultramarine Blue.
Just as the Titanium Crystal, Rutile
Enter a color name or hexidesimal code, FFFFFF = White (all colors full, the numbers
000000 = black (no color). Use numbers in groups of 33 to be web safe. Examples:
FF0000 is red, 990000 is a dark red color red and no other colors, 660000 is a darker
red, 33000 is very dark red. 00FF00 is green, 0000FF is blue, CCCCCC is neutral gray.
I think a spectroscope of dried pigment color would show all colors to be unpure.
I think a spectroscope of dried pigment color would show all colors to be unpure, this
can't always be shown on the web. The percentage CMYK was from mathamatical
printed chart and matched to the tube color by eye..
I matched the dried chip color to the computer by eye. It's close enough to paint with a
computer tablet and compare the relationships of similar colors in pigments.
I matched the pigment tube color dry by eye to RGB color and read it with a Digital
Color Meter.
Top-tone is adding White to the color. Under-tone is adding clear. Mass-tone is thick out
of the tube.
Click the radio button to change the background to the matching tube color.
01a. Bellini Lemon Yellow, Lead Chromate, a light cool Yellow. #"FAFF28", RGB,
R=250 G=255 B=098, CMYK= 80Y 20M
01b. Mussini Zinc Yellow, the coolest Yellow. An extra color. #"F1F10A", R=241
G=241 B=010
01b. Mussini Cadmium Yellow Pale, a slightly cool Yellow. #"FFFA43", R=255
G250 B=067
1c. Old Holland Indian Yellow-Orange Lake Extra, a dual-toned Orange to Yellow
transparent color. #"FF5700", R=255, G=087, B=000 The pale undertone is a strong
Yellow-Pale while the top mass-tone hue is Orange and Vermilion mixed 1:1. This color
can replace the famous "golden transparent", one of the two color aspects of Natural
Indian Yellow.
Here is the dual-toned Under-tone color of Old Holland Indian Yellow-Orange Lake
Extra. #"FFF000", R=255, G=240, B=000
1d. Old Holland Indian Yellow-Brown Lake Extra. It makes a good dark triad neutral,
but not a strong Yellow, more like a Cadmium Yellow Middle Under-tone. (Old Holland
Indian Yellow Brown Lake, has a Warm Tan Ocher top-tone with a Middle Cadmium
Yellow undertone. It makes a poor Orange but will turn Ultramarine Blue to a nice
Neutral Dark if that is all you had on a three color palette.) We artists REALLY need
this color in acrylics and water colors, not just in oils by only one manufacture. NEW,
Liqutex Quinacridone Acra Gold in acrylics is a little close. A Yellow/side Burnt Sienna
if you will. #"986011", R=152 G=096 B=017.
This is the Under-tone color of Old Holland Indian Yellow Brown Lake Extra and
Liqutex Acra Gold Quinacridone PO:49 + PO:45. #"FF9F00", R=255 G=159 B=000.
02a. Mussini Naples Yellow Light, an opaque Nickel and Titanium replacement for
Antimony Yellow. This is the first of eleven pre-made with added white colors, they
must be added to a complete painting color palette. This was the traditional (1875) base
flesh tone when made with Antimony Lead, later and earlier lead-tin Yellow was used.
#"FFEDA8", R=255 G=237 B=168, CMYK= 60Y 20M
03a. Mussini Naples Yellow Deep, (True Naples is either Green-side, Yellow-side or Red-
side, higher firing temperatures make warmer, lighter colors. #"D9A878", R=217
G=169 B=120, CMYK= 60Y 40M
2b. Schmincke Mussini Cadmium Yellow Middle is more Yellow than Grumbacher
Cadmium Yellow Medium. #"FFED09", R=255 G=337 B=009, CMYK= Y 20M
02c. Mussini Yellow Raw Ocher, opaque tan. #"9B6A26", R=155 G=106 B=038,
CMYK= 80Y 20C 40M
02d. Mussini Translucent Yellow Oxide, dual-toned red-tan, add white for a yellow-
tan. It has the same mass-tone matching color as Mussini Indian Yellow Brown Lake
Extra. #"986011", R=152 G=096 B=017
4a. YYYM, Mussini Cadmium Orange, opaque. #"FF8200", R=255, G=130, B=000,
CMYK= Y 60M
To See an Under-tone (the color with clear medium) of Mussini Burnt Sienna, click
below.
6a. Rembrandt Chinese Vermilion Extra, translucent bright Red Light. #"FF3200"
R=255 G=050 B=000, CMYK= Y 80M
07a. YYMM, Cadmium Red Medium. #"FF0000" R=255, G=000, B=000, CMYK=
YM
7b. Blocks Venetian Red, warm opaque. Cadmium Red going to neutral dark black.
#"A60000", RGB, R=153, G=000, B=000, CMYK= Y 40C M
Here below is a light Top-tone of Rembrandt Rose, the perfect Pink, notice it is getting
cooler. #"FF4186", RGB, R=255, G=065, B=134
13a. MMMM, Bocour, New York, Cobalt Violet Phosphate, transparent dual-toned,
dark mass-tone to a cool Top-tone pink when mixed with White and a warm Under-tone
pink when mixed with medium. This color is perfect for making Ultramarine Blue using
Thalo Cyan. #"BD0081" R=163, G=000, B=109, CMYK= 10C 90M
16a. MMMC, Liquitex Carbazole Dioxazine Purple, transparent. With the addition
of White, this pigment completely changes into a cooler color Purple, it is dual-toned.
#"300030" R=048, G=000, B=048, CMYK= 80C M
16a. Grumbacher Dioxazine Purple, the same mass color as #13, this tube color
looks like this. With the addition of White this pigment fills the warm slot. The tinted
color of this pigment is this radio button.
18a. Ultramarine Violet, translucent, from the tube. #"260035", R=038 G=000
B=053, CYMK= 80C M
A Top-tone tint of this color is:
22a. Mussini Cobalt Blue Light, opaque. Nobody makes a true Cobalt Blue
anymore, the artificial colors are in this Opaque Azure range, there are no Transparent
Azures available. #"00255C", R=000, G=037, B=092, CMYK== C 80M
25a. CCCC, Grumbacher Thalo Blue, transparent, a perfect Cyan. This colors
Mass-tone is Ultramarine Blue transparent, and the Top-tone tint color is RGB Cyan,
just like the sky. The more white that is added, the warmer the color becomes.
#"000040", R=000, G=000, B=064, CYMK= C. Paint the sky with Thalo Blue or
Manganese blue and Dioxine Purple to make all the colors between and including the
Ultramarine Blue color. In crystal Cyan darkens by adding magenta which makes blue.
29a. Mussini Opaque Green Light, a mix of Titanium and Phthalo Green, cool
opaque, too handy to be in the auxiliary color wheel. #"007559" R=000, G=117, B=089,
CYMK= 60Y 80C
33a. Mussini Permanent Green Light, warm opaque. #"00590A", R=000, G=089,
B=010, CYMK= 80Y 80C
A tinted Top-tone by adding white of this color is: RGB, R=000,G=255, B=147
35a. CYYY, Old Holland Yellow-Green Organic Opaque has a cooler mass-tone
than Under-tone. #"79C700" R=121, G=199, B=000, CYMK= 20C Y, Here below is the
warmer Under-tone mixed with a clear medium.
35b. Winsor and Newton Sap Green, #"233A00, R=035, G=058, B=000, transparent
dual-tone, from a mass-tone cooler dark to a warmer tint mixing Yellow-Green and
White. Caution; Most brands include black in this pigment and don't give it a
permanent rating. Be safe and don't use it or use a synthetic.
A tint with added white of this color is: RGB, R=152, G=197, B=000
36b. Mussini Genuine Golden Green, #"606300", R=096, G=099, B=000, CYMK= Y
40C 40M
A Top-tone tint by adding white to this dual-toned color is: RGB, R=246, G=255, B=000
Or,
a cool neutral tint. #"CCCCCC" R=180, G=180, B=180, CMYK= 20Y 40C 20M, RCW=
Any triad or complementary set of colors, plus white.