The Complete Color Harmony by Tina Sutton

The Complete Color Harmony is the best color guide. It includes the Color Wheel, Color Schemes, 26 moods like Soft, Friendly and more with vast arrays of Color combinations, the Psychology of Colors and Color swatches.

The Color Wheel is divided into twelve segments. How to use the color is explained and the color wheel is shown in chart form to understand the hue, shade and tints.

The book is divided into the aspects of color, color schemes and color combinations.

The Aspects of Color includes Hot, Cold, Warm, Cool, Light Dark, Pale and Bright.

The Color Schemes includes Achromatic, Analogous, Clash, Complementary, Monochromatic, Neutral, Split Complementary, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Triad Scheme.

There are 26 moods like Powerful, Rich, Romantic and more with 60 Color Combinations in each mood with a total of 1560 Color Combinations.

It is further classified under Monochromatic, Primary / Secondary / Tertiary, Complementary, Analogus, Split Complementary, Split, Clash, Neutral. It helps in choosing the color easily, like if I want to know the Complementary colors in the Calm mood or a Monochromatic Colors in the Refreshing mood.

The Psychology of colors - Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Brown, Gray, White and Black are explained as why we choose a particular color, what a color signifies. Like Red is Vibrant, Orange is friendly and cheerful, Green is Calming, Brown is Comforting and so on.

The Color trends explains the choice of color based on Age, Gender, Ethnicity.

There is a CMYK Color Conversion Chart for the 106 colors and Color Swatches for all the 106 colors.

Overall The Complete Color Harmony is a Great Book. It has a variety of Color Palettes with more than 1000 color combinations to refer. The book also gives few details about Metallic and Fluorescent Palettes and Color Trends. The Psychology of Color is Explained nicely.

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