Apparel Designing and Construction

Apparel Designing and Construction 3(1+2)

Lesson 6 : Elements of Design- Color

Colour Harmonies

Types of Colour Harmonies

Colour harmonies provide guidelines for use of colours in combination in garments. There two broad groups in which colour harmonies are divided:

Related colour harmonies

This group includes the hues close to each other on the colour wheel and includes the following types of colour harmonies:

• mono­chromatic colour harmony; light, dark, dull, and/or bright variations of one hue (Fig. 6.2)
• analogous colour harmony; two to four hues next to each other on the colour wheel (Fig. 6.3)

Contrasting colour harmonies

This group includes the hues opposing each other on the colour wheel and includes the following types of colour harmonies:

• complementary colour harmony; two hues opposite each other on the colour wheel (Fig. 6.4), the opposite warm and cool hues intensify each other.
• double complementary colour harmony; two complements and two hue next to each complements (a four-hue format) on the colour wheel (Fig. 6.5)



Adjacent complementary colour harmony; two complements and one hue next to one of the complements (a three-hue format) on the colour wheel
single-split complementary colour harmony; one hue and the hue on each side of its com¬plement (a three-hue format) on the colour wheel (Fig. 6.6)
double split complementary colour harmony; one hue on each side of two complements (a four-hue format) on the colour wheel
triad colour colour harmony; hues equally spaced on the colour wheel (a three-hue format) (Fig. 6.7)
? Tetrad colour harmony; four hues equally spaced on the colour wheel (a four-hue format) (Fig. 6.8)




Suggestions for planning pleasing colour harmonies