What is Color Wheel?

What is Color Wheel?

            The color wheel is an important and widely used instrument for artists and designers. There is no "the" color wheel, or a "standard" color wheel. There are many different color wheels, serving different purposes of the following categories : (The color Wheel, 2008)

a)      For mixing colors

b)      For determining colors

c)      For selecting colors

The color wheel is a circle shape that is divided equally in to 12 sections, with each section displaying a different color according to its pigment value. As all colors are created from the three primary colors (red, green and blue), the primary colors are shown forming a triangle within the color wheel. The color wheel shows the relationship between the primary colors, secondary colors, and complementary colors. (Businessedge, 2015)

Color Wheel is a conventional arrangement of hues in a circle to demonstrate their relationships. Only full hues as they appear in the spectrum are usually shown in a color wheel. If value is also included then the color wheel is usually presented as a color sphere or solid. The circular arrangement of a color wheel suggests that the progression of colors is circular, that the arrangement of colors turns back on itself the way a circle does. If that were the case the next hue in the sequence green, blue, violet will be red. The wavelengths that produce color, however, progress linearly and the band of electromagnetic energy that appears after violet is ultraviolet which is invisible to the human eye. (2D Design (Art 107) )

Figure 1 : The Color Wheel

Color Terminilogy

Primary Colors: Colors at their basic essence; those colors that cannot be created by mixing others.

Figure 2 : The Primary Colors

Secondary Colors: Those colors achieved by a mixture of two primaries.

Figure 3 : The Secondary Colors

Tertiary Colors: Those colors achieved by a mixture of primary and secondary hues.

Figure 4 : The Tertiary Colors

  

Complementary Colors: Those colors located opposite each other on a color wheel.

Figure 5 : The Complementary Colors

Analogous Colors: Those colors located close together on a color wheel.

Figure 6 : The Analogous Colors

From my understanding the color wheel have a few section of color and each form that will displaying a different colors. It created form the main color it is the three primary color like red, green and blue. And from the three primary color it will get and shown the secondary colors and complementary color. And the color wheel very useful to mixing colors, determining colors and for selecting colors. 

Bibliography

Businessedge, I. (2015). Color Wheel. Webo Pedia.

The color Wheel. (2008). WorkWith Color.com.