Color Schemes

Color schemes play a large roll in how we look at objects, a color can be cool or hot, dull or bright and in many cases complimentary. An example of a football team that has complimentary colors are the Denver Broncos as their colors are blue and orange. When you combine colors you can get new colors, for example when red and yellow are combined you get orange, combine yellow and blue you get green and combine blue and red you get purple. In color you can adjust the light and dark values with tints and shades. To make tints you apply white to a color and to get shades you apply black to a color. Another spectrum of color is the neutral colors which include black, white, gray, and occasionally brown. These aspects of color come together to form three color schemes: analogous, complimentary, and monochromatic. An example of a website that displays an analogous scheme is http://www.packers.com/, the Packers website uses primarily green and yellow to create an analogous color scheme. A site displaying comlimentary colors is the http://www.chicagobears.com/, the Bears website uses the complimentary blue and orange. A site that shows monochromatic color scheme is http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/, which uses primarily blue.