How To Colour Block Properly

Basic lesson in Colour Theory

Primary colours: red, yellow and blue.
The mixture of primary colours into various combination creates secondary colours: green,purple and orange. 
If we keep mixing, our end result will be tertiary colours (orange-yellow, red-orange, violet-red, yellow-green & blue-green). 
There are also tints and shades: tints are mixed with white while shades are mixed with 
black.

How to use the Wheel

1. Analogous colours: any three colours lined up on the colour wheel (e.g. violet, violet-red & red)

2. Complementary colours: any colours directly across from each other (e.g. blue & orange)

3. Pair colours that form 90 degree angles with each other (e.g. yellow & red -orange)

4. Pair colours that form an X (e.g. blue, orange, violet-red & yellow etc.)

5. Pair colours that form a T (e.g. yellow, blue-green & red-orange)

6. Colour-families You can substitute pink (tint) with red and still be able to pull off the combos based on the colour wheel.

Good Luck!

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