Color Schemes

1.) The Minnesota Vikings have colors which is good example of complementary colors. There colors are purple and yellow.

2.) The color combination that makes orange is red and yellow.  Yellow and blue makes green, and blur and red makes purple. These are secondary colors.

3.) The difference between tints and shades are that tints are lightened colors and shades are darkened colors. When you tint you begin with white and add a bit of color to the white. When you shade you begin with a color and add a bit of black to the color.

4.) Neutral colors are black, white,gray and sometimes brown. These colors contain equal parts of each of the three primary colors red, yellow, and blue.

There are three main sets of color schemes. They are analogous, complimentary, and monochromatic. A good example of an Analogous site is: www.mcpheters.com 

a complimentary site is: www.guardian.co.uk

and a monochromatic site is: www.xtendio.com