Essential Color Wheel Companion: Choose Perfect Colors with Confidence (Reference Guide)
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Put Your Color Tool To Work
The Essential Color Wheel Companion gives confidence and inspiration when creating color plans and combining color palettes. Perfect for all creative mediums!
Tints, Tones and Shades…Oh My!
Once any amount of white has been added to a pure color, the color becomes a tint. A tint ranges from a blush white (a white with a tinge of color) to a color that is slightly lighter than its pure color. The range of tints in a color family depends on how light or dark the pure color is.
When a pure color is blackened, it becomes a shade. A shade ranges from a hue that is slightly darker than the pure color to a color that is almost black. When black is first added to a pure color, the black tends to soften the color’s intensity. As more black is added, the color darkens.
If a pure color, tint, or shade is grayed in any way or in any amount, it becomes a tone. A color’s appearance softens when gray is first added to it. As more gray is added, the color becomes less clear.
The Essential Color Wheel has a variety of tints, tones and shades on each wedge.
Find the right color tool for the job!
Essential Color Wheel Companion
The perfect color, crafting tool when playing with colorways. One side of the wheel features 24 pure colors with 4 essential color-plan wheels for each color. The opposite side shows a range of each pure color’s tints, shades, and tones.
Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool
This 24-color card fan deck with an in-depth instructional guide makes color planning easy. One side of each card features a pure color with a sampling of its tints, shades, and tones. The other side of the card gives you basic 5 color scheme suggestions to help find coordinating colors.
Take-Along Mini Color Wheel
Create color combinations on the go with this travel-sized mini color wheel. One side has 12 colors and 5 essential color plans; selecting color has never been easier. The flip side shows a range of each color’s tints, tones, and shades. The wheel stores away in a study case with tips on using your tool wherever you take it.
Studio Color Wheel Poster
Color formulas have never been more picturesque. Adding this poster-size wheel to your wall makes it easier to find the perfect combination of colors for any creative project. Features 24 colors, each with a color plan.
What’s the Ives Color Wheel?
All of Joen’s color tools are based on the Ives Color Wheel. “In the mid-twentieth century Herbert Ives...solved one of the biggest color mysteries by discovering that three specific colors can be mixed to make all other colors. These colors are zanth (yellow), achlor (magenta), and syan (cyan). Because they form all other pure colors, they are called primary colors. The modern-day names for these primary colors are yellow, magenta, and cyan (turquoise blue). Many of us are more familiar with these primary colors as ink colors for our printers, where they create every color imaginable. Besides ink colors, Ives gave us a color wheel to use as a reference when working with nature, as well as with pigments, dyes, paints, stains, and any objects colored by these methods, including fabric, fiber, and objects used in home decor and interior design.” - Joen Wolfrom, Color Play
Color Plans are nature’s perfect color combinations
When you want to feature a specific color, select one of nature’s color plans that best fits your needs and design. These plans are tried and true and have existed since the beginning of time. Nature’s five top-rated color plans are monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split-complementary, and triadic. Each tool offers a visual color scheme for each color.
What’s your next creative project?
Create with confidence when using a color tool
Which colors should I choose? Which colors will look best? Which colors will give me the effect I desire? These are the questions creatives often ask themselves when they begin a new project. It is easy to get tied up in knots when making color decisions. Fortunately, there are color options that are easy to use and apply to a variety of creative projects, crafts, and design choices.
- Painting
- Quilting & Sewing
- Paper Crafts
- Embroidery
- Knitting & Crochet
- Coloring
- Beading
- Educational Purposes
