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Colour Theory: For Fashion Design

The document discusses key aspects of color theory for fashion design including: - The importance of color in achieving successful garment design through balance, proportion, emphasis, unity and rhythm. - Hue, value, and intensity as the three characteristics used to describe color. Hue refers to the name of the color, value is the lightness or darkness, and intensity is the brightness. - The primary, secondary, intermediate, and neutral color categories and how they are derived from mixing colors on the color wheel. - Five basic color schemes - monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, and split-complementary - and examples of how they combine colors.

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Colour Theory: For Fashion Design

The document discusses key aspects of color theory for fashion design including: - The importance of color in achieving successful garment design through balance, proportion, emphasis, unity and rhythm. - Hue, value, and intensity as the three characteristics used to describe color. Hue refers to the name of the color, value is the lightness or darkness, and intensity is the brightness. - The primary, secondary, intermediate, and neutral color categories and how they are derived from mixing colors on the color wheel. - Five basic color schemes - monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, and split-complementary - and examples of how they combine colors.

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Colour Theory

for fashion design


Importance of Colour
 Colour plays an important role in achieving a
successful design
 Fashion designers incorporate colour to
achieve a harmonious garment design
 Balance, proportion, emphasis, unity and
rhythm rely on colour

www.schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/marketing/.../fashion/FMB.ppt
Hue, Value and Intensity
 Hue:
• Is the name given to a color, such as red, yellow,
green, or violet. It distinguishes one color from
another

 Value:
• Is the lightness or darkness of a color. The values
of colors range on a gradation scale from almost
white to almost black.

 Intensity:
• Is the brightness or dullness of a color. Very
strong, bright colors are said to have high
intensity.

www.schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/marketing/.../fashion/FMB.ppt
Colour Categories
 Primary colors:
• Red, yellow, and blue
 Secondary colors:
• Orange, green, and violet (purple). They are made by mixing equal
amounts of two primary hues together.
 Intermediate colors:
• Result when equal amounts of adjoining primary and secondary colors
are combined. (Yellow-green, red-orange…)
 Neutral
• White, black, gray

www.schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/marketing/.../fashion/FMB.ppt
5 Basic Colour Schemes
• Monochromatic color scheme
 A one-color plan that uses different tints shades, and intensities. A navy
blue pair of pants, with a light blue shirt is monochromatic. Same
“color” different shades.
• Analogous color scheme
 Uses neighboring, or adjacent, colors on the wheel. It is sometimes
called a related color scheme since two or three “related” colors are
used.
• Complementary color scheme
 Uses opposite hues on the color wheel. Complementary colors are
across from each other on the wheel
• Triad color scheme
 Combines three colors equidistant on the wheel. Examples are red,
yellow, and blue.
www.schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/marketing/.../fashion/FMB.ppt
Triadic and Complementary

www.schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/marketing/.../fashion/FMB.ppt
Colour Terminology
 Accented Neutral
• A color scheme that combines white, black, or gray with a
bright color accent.
 Analogous
• A color scheme using two or three adjacent or “related”
colors on the color wheel
 Cool colors
• Hues, such as green, blue, and violet, that serve as
reminders of water or sky.
 Complementary
• A color scheme using hues across from each other on the
color wheel
 Hue
• The name given to a color

Colour
Intensity
Terminology cont’d
• The brightness or dullness of a color
 Monochromatic
• A color scheme that uses different tints, shades and
intensities
 Split-complementary
• A color scheme that uses one color with the two colors
on each side of its complement on the color wheel
 Value
• The lightness or darkness of a color between almost
white to almost black
 Warm colors
• Hues, such as red, orange, and yellow, that appear to
be hot like the sun or fire.
Colour and Fashion

http://fashionbombdaily.com/2010/04/16/the-color-wheel-how-to-combine-colors-wardrobe-
accessories/tolula-adeyemi-2/
1. Colors directly next to each other (i.e.
yellow and yellow-orange; yellow and yellow- What works
green; violet and blue-violet, etc.)
2. Colors that form right (90 degree) angles together!
with each other (i.e. yellow and red-orange;
blue and violet-red; green and orange, etc.)
3. Colors directly across from each other
(i.e. yellow and violet; blue and orange; red
and green, etc.)
4. Colors that form a T (i.e. blue, orange, and
violet-red; yellow, violet, and red-orange;
yellow, blue-green, and red-orange, etc.)
5. Colors that form an X (i.e. blue, orange,
violet-red, and yellow, violet, blue-green, and
red-orange, etc.)

http://fashionbombdaily.com/2010/04/16/the-color-wheel-how-to-combine-colors-wardrobe-
accessories/tolula-adeyemi-2/
Neutrals
These neutrals work well with all colours:
 Brown
 Black
 White
 Denim
 Grey
 Colour families work too
 Substitute red with pink
and will work with blues
(right angles)

http://fashionbombdaily.com/2010/04/16/the-color-wheel-how-to-combine-colors-wardrobe-
accessories/tolula-adeyemi-2/

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