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A color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media. For example, the use of a white background with black text is an example of a basic and commonly default color scheme in web design. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... All Saints Chapel in the Cathedral Basilica of St. ... Alternate meanings: White (disambiguation) White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... This article is about the color black; for other uses, see Black (disambiguation). ... Default in computer science refers to a default setting or value automatically assigned to a programme or device. ... Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI). ...

Color schemes are used to create style and appeal. Colors that create an aesthetic feeling when used together will commonly accompany each other in color schemes. A basic color scheme will use 2 colors that look appealing together. More advanced color schemes involve several colors mixed together, usually based around a single color; for example, text with such colors as red, yellow, orange and light blue arranged together on a black background in a magazine article. The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ... Red re-directs here; for alternate uses see Red (disambiguation) Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... Yellow is the color of light whose wavelength is between 565nm and 590nm, or is a mixture of red and green light that appears to be the same color. ... See also Orange (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word. ... Blue (from Old High German blao shining) is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength (about 470 nm) of the three primary colors. ...

Color schemes can also contain different shades of a single color; for example, a color scheme that mixes different shades of green, ranging from very light (almost white) to very dark.

Use of the phrase color scheme may also and commonly does refer to choice and use of colors used outside typical aesthetic media and context, although may still be used for purely aesthetic effect as well as for purely practical reasons. This most typically refers to color patterns and designs as seen on vehicles, particularly those used in the military when concerning color patterns and designs used for identification of friend or foe, identification of specific military units, or as camouflage. Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ... In telecommunications, identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a crypto identification system designed for command and control. ... This article is about protective camouflage used to disguise people, animals, or military targets. ...

A color scheme in marketing is referred to as a trade dress and can be sometimes be copyrighted, such as kodak film, or Tide laundry detergent.[1] For the magazine, see Marketing (magazine). ... Trade dress refers to features of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the facade of a building such as a restaurant) that may be registered and protected from being used by competitors in the manner of a trademark. ... Not to be confused with copywriting. ... Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is a large multinational public company producing photographic equipment. ... This article is about tides in the Earths oceans. ...

On the color wheel

Color schemes are often described in terms of logical combinations of colors on a color wheel. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Monochromatic color scheme

A monochromatic scheme consists of different values of one color.

Analogous color scheme

Also called harmonious colors, are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Some examples are green, light green, and yellow or red, orange and yellow.

Complementary color scheme

Complementary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow. These colors, when used side-by-side, make each other appear brighter. When they are mixed, they neutralize each other. Complementary colors are pairs of colors that are of “opposite” hue in some color model. ...

Split-complementary color scheme

A color scheme that includes a main color and the two colors on each side of its complementary (opposite) color on the color wheel.

Triadic color scheme

A triadic color scheme consists of three colors of equal distance apart on the color wheel, such as the basic triad of red, yellow, and blue on an RYB color model wheel. Mixture of RYB primary colors RYB (an abbreviation of red-yellow-blue) is a historical set of subtractive primary colors. ...

Tetradic color scheme

Tetrads are any four colors with a logical relationship on the color wheel, such as double complements.

Examples of media where color schemes are used

• Advertising
• GUI
  • Window managers such as GNOME, KDE and Blackbox.
  • Irix 4dwm's GUI uses more color schemes, whose information is stored in files named BaseColorPalette.
• The World Wide Web
  • Cascading Style Sheets allow easily-editable color schemes to be applied to HTML webpages.
• Publishing
  • Modern magazines use a range of colors in text and imagery which tend not to conform to a specific set of colors throughout the magazine.
• Interior design
• Art

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See also

• Light-on-dark color scheme
• Dark-on-light color scheme
• Color tool

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External links

• Color Scheme Gallery
• 2006 Trends in Paint Color Schemes
• COLOURlovers.com - 25,000+ Color Palettes & Color Schemes
• Color Schemer-Interactive site
• ColorJack: Color Generator
• Color Scheme Generator 2