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Basic Color Theory      
& Principles - 3 -       

Content:

1. About Color
2. The 'Color Wheel'
3. Basic Color Terms
4. Warm & Cool Colors
5. Color Relationship
6. Color Perception
7. Mixing a Practical Color-Chart
8. (soon new content)

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In the graphics below you see a more realistic system to understand about the primaries, secondaries and tertiaries:

- graphic on the left: mixing '1' (primaries) with '1' (primaries)
gives '2' (secondaries)

- graphic on the right: mixing '1' (primaries) with '2' (secondaries)
gives '3' (tertiaries)

If you mix further and adjust the quantities of a primary and a secondary color you will get a large range of subtle colors. By mixing secondaries and tertiaries you will end up in 'muddish' colors = you start to produce brownish, greyish or neutral colors in a huge variety of tints and shades.

Let us end the first steps of understanding the basic color-wheel with a question:
What happens when you mix the 3 primaries in absolut equal quantities together?
You will get a simple neutral grey because the 3 colors are equalizing each other.

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