12 color wheel

The swap is full. About a month ago Jennifer over at Ellison Lane Quilts started up a new round of her Rainbow Charm Swap. I missed the boat and was feeling a bit sorry for myself, but then I decided to just start up my own swap. Jennifer gave me the green light to use her idea and also gave me a few pointers along the way. This swap will be based on the color wheel--one of my favorite sources of quilting inspiration. I made this quilt about a year ago with the color wheel in mind and look…

How to Make Blue? If you want to know what colors make blue, you may get two very different answers. The first one is simple: you can’t make blue because it’s one of the three so-called primaries. The second is a bit more complicated, but actually very interesting and much closer to the truth. So […]

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and green). The high c...

A colour wheel of equally spaced 24 hues and 5 tones each giving a representative colour vocabulary of 120 mostly saturated colours. Each colour is named after an unambiguous real world examplar and an example is given to justify the name. Finally, we can name colours accurately in a common sense manner without resorting to arcane Pantone numbers, incorrect web colours or clumsy Munsell names.

Color is one of the trickiest components of graphic design, but it is for this reason that it is just as important to master. Since it is a powerful yet subjective communication tool, it can have a massive impact on how your audience receives your design or product. The work that goes behind picking beautiful […]

Let’s continue on explaining a little bit about “color” This is what I use for designing: the color wheel. I know some of you will say: “how do I use this color wheel?”…

I’m Designer, Author, Talk Show host Pat Sloan. This year we are celebrating the rainbow of colors in our color wheel. Each designer is assigned a color to create their block in. You might have tho…