Week 7 Page 10: Adjusting Color Relationships

Color Relationships

Look at the color squares in the slide above... Do you think the green box in the center of the yellow and dark green squares is the same color? It is... Be aware that colors change in relationship to each other. They may appear to be a different hue or shade when combined with another color.

Adjusting Color Relationships

Your client wants to use purple and green but at full saturation those colors look awful! What do you do? Some clashing colors will actually harmonize if you adjust their tint, shade and saturation. Here are a couple web examples of complementary colors (purple and green) that might usually be dazzling. The tints, shades and saturation have been changed to harmonize the colors:

saturated purple green web example

 

  • Muted greens and purples (website no longer available):
purple green tinted web example

 

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