49HARMONY
The aesthetics of color relationships
The aesthetics of color is a topic that has been studied for centuries with many attempts to define rules to ensure harmony. Though often described as a balance of separate but related parts, creating harmony is ultimately dependent on the personal decisions of the artist or designer.
Traditionally, most teaching about color harmony was focused on hue relationships, illustrated by simple geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, and rectangles positioned in a hue circle. Identifying hue relationships—such as monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triad, tetrad, and so ...
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