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Color Schemes Compared

On this page you will find a quick reference guide to the different categories of color showing Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colors of the color wheel.

We focus on the color categories of Red, Red Orange, Orange, Yellow Orange, Yellow, Yellow Green, Green, Blue Green, Blue, Blue Violet, Violet, and Red Violet color schemes.

Each color category shows the corresponding colors associated to the various color schemes of Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary, Triadic, and Tetradic Colors used by Illustrators and Graphic Designers.

Our Color Series include these topics:

We will continue to add more in our Color Series as they are developed, so check back with us often!

Red Schemes
Monochromatic Red Medium Red Light Red transparent spacer image
Analogous Red Red Violet Red Orange transparent spacer image
Complementary Red Green transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Red Blue Green Yellow Green transparent spacer image
Triadic Red Blue Yellow  
Tetradic #1 Red Green Blue Orange
Tetradic #2 Red Green Violet Yellow
Red Orange Schemes
Monochromatic Red Orange Medium Red Orange Light Red Orange transparent spacer image
Analogous Red Orange Red Orange transparent spacer image
Complementary Red Orange Blue Green transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Red Orange Blue Green transparent spacer image
Triadic Red Orange Blue Violet Yellow Green transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Red Orange Blue Green Blue Violet Yellow Orange
Tetradic #2 Red Orange Blue Green Red Violet Yellow Green
Orange Schemes
Monochromatic Orange Medium Orange Light Orange transparent spacer image
Analogous Orange Red Orange Yellow Orange transparent spacer image
Complementary Orange Blue transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Orange Blue Violet Blue Green transparent spacer image
Triadic Orange Violet Green transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Orange Blue Violet Yellow
Tetradic #2 Orange Blue Red Green
Yellow Orange Schemes
Monochromatic Yellow Orange Medium Yellow Orange Light Yellow Orange transparent spacer image
Analogous Yellow Orange Orange Yellow transparent spacer image
Complementary Yellow Orange Blue Violet transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Yellow Orange Violet Blue transparent spacer image
Triadic Yellow Orange Red Violet Blue Green transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Yellow Orange Blue Violet Red Violet Yellow Green
Tetradic #2 Yellow Orange Blue Violet Red Orange Blue Green
Yellow Schemes
Monochromatic Yellow Medium Yellow Light Yellow transparent spacer image
Analogous Yellow Yellow Orange Yellow Green transparent spacer image
Complementary Yellow Violet transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Yellow Red Violet Blue Violet transparent spacer image
Triadic Yellow Red Blue transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Yellow Violet Red Green
Tetradic #2 Yellow Violet Orange Blue
Yellow Green Schemes
Monochromatic Yellow Green Medium Yellow Green Light Yellow Green transparent spacer image
Analogous Yellow Green Green Yellow transparent spacer image
Complementary Yellow Green Red Violet transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Yellow Green Red Violet transparent spacer image
Triadic Yellow Green Blue Violet Red Orange transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Yellow Green Red Violet Blue Violet Yellow Orange
Tetradic #2 Yellow Green Red Violet Blue Green Red Orange
Green Schemes
Monochromatic Green Medium Green Light Green transparent spacer image
Analogous Green Yellow Green Blue Green transparent spacer image
Complementary Green Red transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Green Red Violet Red Orange transparent spacer image
Triadic Green Orange Violet transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Green Red Orange Blue
Tetradic #2 Green Red Yellow Violet
Blue Green Schemes
Monochromatic Blue Green Medium Blue Green Light Blue Green transparent spacer image
Analogous Blue Green Green Blue transparent spacer image
Complementary Blue Green Red Orange transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Blue Green Orange Red transparent spacer image
Triadic Blue Green Yellow Orange Red Violet transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Blue Green Red Orange Yellow Orange Blue Violet
Tetradic #2 Blue Green Red Orange Yellow Green Red Violet
Blue Schemes
Monochromatic Blue Medium Blue Light Blue transparent spacer image
Analogous Blue Blue Green Blue Violet transparent spacer image
Complementary Blue Orange transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Blue Red Orange Yellow Orange transparent spacer image
Triadic Blue Red Yellow transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Blue Orange Red Green
Tetradic #2 Blue Orange Violet Yellow
Blue Violet Schemes
Monochromatic Blue Medium Blue Light Blue transparent spacer image
Analogous Blue Blue Green Blue Violet transparent spacer image
Complementary Blue Orange transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Blue Red Orange Yellow Orange transparent spacer image
Triadic Blue Red Yellow transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Blue Orange Red Green
Tetradic #2 Blue Orange Violet Yellow
Violet Schemes
Monochromatic Violet Medium Violet Light Violet transparent spacer image
Analogous Violet Blue Violet Red Violet transparent spacer image
Complementary Violet Yellow transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Violet Yellow Green Yellow Orange transparent spacer image
Triadic Violet Green Orange transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Violet Yellow Green Red
Tetradic #2 Violet Yellow Blue Orange
Red Violet Schemes
Monochromatic Red Violet Medium Red Violet Light Red Violet transparent spacer image
Analogous Red Violet Red Violet transparent spacer image
Complementary Red Violet Yellow Green transparent spacer image transparent spacer image
Split Complement Red Violet Yellow Green transparent spacer image
Triadic Red Violet Yellow Orange Blue Green transparent spacer image
Tetradic #1 Red Violet Yellow Green Yellow Orange Blue Violet
Tetradic #2 Red Violet Yellow Green Red Orange Blue Green
Malane Newman

Malane Newman is a professional illustrator and cartoonist for over 25 years. She is a master with color and eye candy. She has illustrated a variety of consumer products such as games, childrens books, board games, food and product packaging, magazines, greeting cards, and other consumer products. She provides new character design for clients and offers the copyrights at affordable rates. She can match most cartooning styles and works with creative directors on licensed character art (Barbie, Popeye, The Swan Princess).

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