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How To Create Color Palettes

The document discusses how to create beautiful color palettes using the color wheel. It explains basic color combinations like primary, secondary, tertiary, monochromatic, analogous, complement, and split complement. Examples of fall color palettes are provided based on these combinations. The document also shows how to build palettes starting from any base color, like blue, and what to do if you want to include colors like purple that are not part of the typical fall palette.

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How To Create Color Palettes

The document discusses how to create beautiful color palettes using the color wheel. It explains basic color combinations like primary, secondary, tertiary, monochromatic, analogous, complement, and split complement. Examples of fall color palettes are provided based on these combinations. The document also shows how to build palettes starting from any base color, like blue, and what to do if you want to include colors like purple that are not part of the typical fall palette.

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HOW TO

MAKE
BEAUTIFUL
COLOR
PALETTES
It’s all on the color wheel!

Magazine
Navigate the color wheel
The basic combinations. . .

Primary Secondary

Tertiary Monochromatic

Analogous Complement Split complement

How to design cool stuff


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Fall colors on the wheel
The wheel tells us their relationships . . .

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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Fall color palettes

Split complement

Complement
with analogous

Analogous

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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Start with any color
Palettes based on 5483 blue . . .

Complement

Split complement

Analogous

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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more blue . . .

Monochromatic

Split complement

Primary

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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What if I have purple?
Purple’s not in the Fall palette. So just add it in . . .

Complement

Complement

Split complement

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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more purple . . .

Analogous

Analogous

Split complement

All Pantone PMS colors shown here are simulated.


For the real things, consult a Pantone swatch book. �

How to design cool stuff


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