Color Education

This is an interesting article about color and color interactions, in particular context to interior designers but it applies to all matters of designs that seek to include color. Here is the link: Sherwin Williams - Color Education

An excerpt from the text:
"The human eye can discriminate millions of colors. Today's consumers of color are increasingly looking for options that have a fresher, cleaner appearance. They are also seeking a broader range of the spectrum to enjoy color in more interesting ways.

The designer's challenge is bringing order to the myriad colors available through an understanding of the psychological and physical ways to manipulate colors intelligently. Working with a color organization system makes this task much easier."

"Colors of similar visual temperatures lay adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Because of this arrangement, it is easy to contrast the differences: the warm colors – the reds, oranges and yellows – appear opposite the cool colors – greens, blues and purples.
Color wheels also make it easier to apply classic color theories to a design project. Monochromatic, analogous, triadic and complementary color schemes are used most often. Monochromatic schemes utilize one hue. Analogous schemes use two hues that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Triads use three hues that are equidistant from each other on the wheel. Tetrads are four hues evenly spaced on the color wheel."