Graphic Design Class 4 | Colour Combination

- Complemetary colours combination.

Complementary colours are colours that spice up your dominant colours. In every design, there is a dominant colour, your complementary colour adds more beauty to your design. And these colours are always on the opposite side of your dominant colour in your colour wheel.

- Analogous colour combination.

This position of these colours is contrary to that of complementary, these colour sit next to each other on the colour wheel they look almost alike but have their distinct identity, you can tell this based on “colour code”. Here one colour dominates, the other supports and then one other can accent

- Triadic colours.

These type of colours are strategically and evenly spaced on the colour wheel, one of their major feature is the brightness , harmony and cordial interaction these colour possess such that they can stand out and also appealing to the eyes.
In addition, we also have the split- complementary, Rectangle and square colour combination pattern. The usage can be seen in the image below. You do this by selecting the points/ edges of the as shown in the image

(1) Red, yellow,cyan and bright purple
Hex code: #d71b3b #e8d71e #16acea #4203c9

(2)Mustard and Black .
Hex code: #f3ca20 & #000000

(3) Rouge, Green & Magenta
Hex: #da68a0 #77c593 #ed3572

(4) Beige, Brown-brown and Tan
Hex code:#ddc3a5 #201e20 #e0a96d

(5)Fuchsia, yellow and Magenta
Hex code: #d13ca4 #ffea04 #fe3a9e

(6) Yellow-green, Olive and forest green
Hex code: #e1dd72 #a8c66c #1b6535.

My Example

As seen in our cover flier,the colour used are purple,orange white and black. I hope you've not forgotten that I said white and black are not really colours,they only help amplify or modify colour by toning and shading respectively. Also take not of my type combination,I used a script font to compliment a San serif font,you can also try something new and avoid being rigid with design

The colour combination above are just few of the popular or common combinations, there are still very many you can explore yourself and use in your designs.Also do well not to bore your viewers with too many colours in your design all in the name of combination, I personally recommend that you use a maximum of 3 colours in a design.You know I will always say that as a student you don’t end your learning where your teacher stopped, you proceed from there on the strength of the lesson and idea you’ve been given.

Conclusion.

Colour combination determines to a large extent how your work is perceived, wrong combination will rubbish the design work no matter how important the message in the design is. That is why due care should be taken in selecting your colours.

Homework

(1) In your own word, explain what you understand by Colour Combination.

(2) Explain in your own words the colour wheel concept

(3) Show with the aid of a screenshot/image 5 more colour combination and their Hex code

(4) Design a simple flier using any appropraite colour combination of your choice.

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