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#1 Mommy Zabs on 09.24.07 at 10:58 pm

Great article. Your writing is great. I love color. it is my favorite element of design by far. My color theory class was my favorite in college. I hope you sell a ton of color wheels! Dugg it and added you to my technorati faves.
-mommy zabs

#2 Sherman C. on 09.25.07 at 1:40 am

Thanks Zabs for your kind words!

Well, I’m giving the color wheel away! So grab it NOW before I change my mind. ;p

Sherman

#3 SEO London on 09.27.07 at 11:39 pm

Nice article! Just signed up for your pdf.

Cheers

#4 Sherman C. on 09.27.07 at 11:51 pm

Thank you SEO London!

I love you work on your portfolio page.

Sherman

#5 Butch on 10.04.07 at 11:27 pm

Great work on the Color Wheel. I have a copy of it on my desk for easy reference and use it with every design I work on. It has assisted greatly in choosing colors that work well together for maximum visibility and effect. Thank you for the efforts that you’ve put into developing a reference that is so useful.

#6 Sherman C. on 10.04.07 at 11:43 pm

Hi Butch,

Yes, the color wheel is indeed a very useful reference tool—for designers and non-designers alike.

I’ve a mini version, a desktop icon that sits on my Mac desktop. Whenever I wanted a quick reference, I activate the Expose to put all windows away, exposing the desktop and I see that mini color wheel.

Sherman

#7 Jeff M on 11.04.07 at 12:53 pm

Thank you so much for this helpful and useful color wheel. I made it a necessity for all my designers to have it posted next to their screen somehow.

#8 Sherman C. on 11.04.07 at 1:17 pm

Hi Jeff,

I’m flattered. Thanks!

Sherman

#9 John Rocheleau - Artist on 12.17.07 at 5:46 am

As a painter I’m in love with color. I especially enjoy using compliment colors against one another to create “snap.”

You have top be careful not to create garishness in the process though. To avoid that, I ensure one of the compliments are dominant and the other is muted or lighter. That way they work together rather than both of them fighting for attention.

And you’re so right about the emotive qualities of color, especially how they subtly interact with each other. We can stimulate just the right background psychology — or not — depending on the choices. I’ve found it helps, once you have an arrangement set up, to stop analyzing and just sit and notice how you feel.

Cheers,
John

#10 Sherman C. on 12.17.07 at 10:12 am

Hi John,

Thanks for your tips!

Sherman

#11 Mandy on 01.22.08 at 1:07 pm

Thank for your copy of the color wheel! Its really a great help to me. Choosing colors is not a difficult job for me anymore!

#12 Sherman C. on 01.22.08 at 2:15 pm

Hi Mandy, I’m glad it helps you.

#13 Heather on 01.29.08 at 12:59 am

I’m learning about the different values color has on everything and your color wheels are very helpful in the self educating of me. Thanks so much.

#14 tony on 03.10.08 at 7:32 am

great tool! i’ll definitely keep this open whenever i work. thanks!

#15 Gaida on 03.16.08 at 10:06 am

Colour has an amazing impact on how we view & feel about everything. Especially when designing it can be very confusing with all the different shades. The colour wheel is a great resource tool. Thanks

#16 Heidi on 03.28.08 at 10:02 pm

I really like it! But you are missing 2 color schemes- triadic and tetrad (or double complementary). Add those and I think it would be great!

#17 Sherman C. on 03.30.08 at 3:09 pm

Hi Heidi,

Thanks for your comment. Yes, I’ll take those 2 schemes into consideration when I revise the color guide.

Sherman

#18 Brenda on 04.24.08 at 8:15 pm

Hi Sherman.

I’m a novice with color. I love and desire color. But, I would find myself latching onto the mono scheme. I’m venturing out a lot more now with the great thing COLOR. We recently moved into our somewhat dream home. We have one large orange accent wall (I think tastefully done) surrounded by white walls. We’re from
Florida but relocated to Atlanta. (I’m truly tropical). Case and point, color seem to scare me. That color wheel is really a neat tool, it soothes a lot of fears. I
would like to get my feet wet a little more with design.Your color wheel helps to make sense of what you are doing and the direction to take. Thanks Sherman.

Brenda

#19 laura on 05.17.08 at 7:11 am

i actually used the advice to spruce up my makeup. i wanted to play up the green in my eyes (and minimize the brown). now i know red violet is the color choice for me.

#20 Sherman C. on 05.18.08 at 2:02 pm

@Brenda - You’re welcome. I’m glad you find the color wheel useful.

@Laura - Frankly, I haven’t thought of using the color wheel on makeup. But obviously it can.

Sherman

#21 Stephane on 06.02.08 at 10:14 am

Very well presented, everyone who aspires to do any design work need this tool.

I would love to see this pushed to the next level with a little bit more practical advices on how to use these colour concepts.

Thanks,

#22 Rena Hutcheson on 06.14.08 at 5:51 pm

Hi, Thank you for the colour wheel. It is great.

Is it possible to make a skin tones colour wheel?

Thanks.

Rena

#23 Felicia Lau on 06.25.08 at 10:55 pm

Hi Sherman,
Thanks for the color guide. I have already put into use in my project and the effect looks good..

Also, I would like to say that you have a wonderful website, in terms of colours, information etc. All it looks so interesting to me and makes me want to know more.. You are great!

#24 Sherman C. on 06.26.08 at 10:12 pm

@Stephane - Thanks for your suggestion. I’ll post some advice on how to use these colour concepts when I get the time as I’ve been very busy.

@Rena - I do not know of any skin tone color wheel. But I guess when you use the light tints of the color wheel you might find colors to match skin tones.

@Felicia - Thanks for your compliments!

#25 Rebecca on 07.04.08 at 1:15 pm

This is what i was looking for i am doing renos on our home and needed help deciding what color would look best with the adjoining room’s colors. Thanks.
Rebecca

#26 Kim Murphy on 07.28.08 at 9:13 am

Hi,

I am looking for a color wheel or even a chart for flesh tones, there doesn’t seem to be many any resources on the web for this. Your site comes right up on a google search for “Flesh Tone Color Wheel”. I need it for a current web design project.

#27 Caitlin on 08.10.08 at 1:23 am

Thanks for providing a free color wheel! I used it to color my Bible. My memory works much better if I associate colors with words or phrases and I was able to memorize a whole chapter. Also I’ll use it to help me paint my room! It’s fun just to look at to. Thanks again!

#28 Yolonda on 08.19.08 at 8:40 pm

Thank you for the Color Wheel, it has been very helpful in selecting a new color scheme.

Make more…make some in gradient, neutrals, brights, etc.

Thanks A Million

#29 Tammie on 08.28.08 at 8:37 pm

I, too, am doing renovations on houses. Not only my own, but ones we purchase and remodel for resale or rental. I watch almost every design show available and am quite aware of how color influences the world around us. Although I have a natural “gift” for color choices, this is an invaluable tool I have been searching for quite some time. Thank you everso much for making it available. You are a gift to the craft!

#30 Ian on 09.10.08 at 11:13 am

Thanks for the color wheel. It’s awesome and will help me ALOT!!! Thanks again

#31 Mary on 09.18.08 at 9:17 pm

The developers at our company need some assistance in coming up with colors for our new software product. The color wheel will help them see which colors work best together, so they can design accordingly. Thank you.

#32 Amal on 10.10.08 at 3:36 pm

I’m starting a career in Interior Design and this tool helps my clients see the potential color has. After seeing all the colors on the color wheel, they are more willing to explore the possibility of color instead of going with the norm. Great effort on the pdf. Thank you so much!!!

#33 Mai Nguyen on 10.16.08 at 10:02 pm

Very very good advice. Thank you

#34 Sue on 10.22.08 at 3:14 am

Hi Sherman
The colour wheel information is a great aid/prompt for me as I teach flower arranging and this term we are looking into colour.
Thanks
Sue

#35 E.M. on 10.27.08 at 10:09 pm

I have been looking for a good color wheel for a while and the paint store suggested I try the web, so glad I did! This has helped as my other half is color challanged, now I have a tool to show him what I plan to do before I commit and scare him…

#36 Mary on 11.12.08 at 9:03 pm

thank you, it was very helpful. I needed a guide for complimentary colors. Great pdf!

#37 Debbie on 11.16.08 at 6:41 am

Colour wheel will be a great help, just the inspiration I needed. Thanks.

#38 Michelle Lemaster on 11.18.08 at 12:42 pm

I used your colorwheel and your nice, succinct definition of complimentary colors with my 4th graders. We did a cross-curricular lesson of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax studying reading, science, and art. We discussed how Seuss uses bright, complimentary colors to create energy. $th grade standards in CA state that one should teach about complimentary colors. Your very handy and very free color guide came in so handy when the kids were making their own brightly colored truffula trees. I know they came out even better after our discussion of complimentary colors. Many times before choosing their colors, a student would walk to the whiteboard and trace across the wheel to a color’s complimentary color. Thank you for your invaluable resource!

#39 isaura on 12.01.08 at 5:45 pm

very usefull. Thank you.

#40 Sue on 12.15.08 at 6:06 pm

I found your colour wheel very informative and have shown these to my flower arranging colleagues. Thank you it has been and will continue to be most useful

#41 Misty on 01.02.09 at 11:58 am

Color Wheel was helpful however; I seen something at Walmart while ago…. Dont know if you could incorporate it into yours or not…. The wheel had a center that could spin & you could see different shades of the colors. That was a pretty cool idea! Thanks again!!

#42 lani on 01.07.09 at 7:52 am

love this! we are moving into a new old house and everything needs to be changed! i am so excited to really add the color i’ve always wanted in every room of the house! i only wish i had a good color printer to print the pages! thanks again for sharing! i’m learning lots!

#43 Andre on 01.07.09 at 9:00 pm

It is great and it answered all the questions I had about mixing and yes it will be a great help to anyone.
Thanks

#44 Melanie on 01.08.09 at 7:10 am

Loved it!!! It helped me decide which color to paint my living room. I never considered the split contrast technique before.

#45 Touche' on 01.09.09 at 12:24 am

Thank you so very much! Just like others before me I was looking for ideas to help me paint an office that is already painted two different colors, oops.. three! This helped me choose the perfect fourth, ha ha. The only way to improve it would be for you to add a video.. (just joking) It’s Great. Thanks!

#46 Bogusia on 01.11.09 at 9:30 pm

Thank you very much, is great to find something so helpful. You have done fantastic job.

#47 Edena Joughin on 01.15.09 at 5:41 pm

I teach The Nafas Diploma, I thought the discs of colour schemes excellent visual aids. I would have liked a blank one , so that students could paint their own, students learn more by doing.
Thank You
Edena

#48 Rao on 01.17.09 at 3:45 am

It is great and it will be a great help to me in colouring different activities/schedules of work performing.
Thanks

#49 Deborah on 01.17.09 at 8:20 pm

Great tool, my daughter has just started an interior design course and she finds it very helpful. I think having it spin to show different shades of the colour would be pretty cool.

#50 YASHRAJ BATRA on 01.18.09 at 3:00 pm

This was very helpful in designing and mixing basic colors, i wish you had some information about textures as well and may be a complete concise guide to designing anything . Thanks so much for all the information you have put together.

#51 Tiggs on 01.20.09 at 1:51 am

I am finding the color wheel to be very useful.
I make knitted felted bags and wanted the color wheel so I can choose colors that will give more eye appeal to the designs. The color wheel will definitely help with choices.
It is just what I needed and I don’t know how you could improve it. Looks perfect to me.
Thank you for making it available.
Tiggs

#52 Bruce on 01.23.09 at 4:10 am

The color wheel pages are just what I was looking for and will be very helpful to me designing latch hook rugs.

#53 Evelyne on 01.31.09 at 7:20 am

I wanted a tool to communicate with local Shan weavers on the Thai-Myrnmar border about color combos and choices. Your color guide filled the bill perfectly.

#54 Michelle on 02.09.09 at 10:43 pm

The color wheel and color information really is free and fantastic! Thank you for offering this resource. I had no idea what a color wheel was or how to use one. Now I know this and much more! Everyone in my fashion/wardrobe class is interested in having a copy of this color wheel too. It is a big hit!
Thank you!

#55 Roxanne on 02.13.09 at 11:35 am

Your color wheel and description of the use of color is simple and clear; two things I was looking for. Thank you for providing this extremely helpful tool. Thank you so very much!

#56 Mary Ann on 02.17.09 at 5:56 pm

Thank you! It is just what I needed as a beginner in painting. I do not see anything I would want changed.

#57 Sandra on 02.28.09 at 8:20 am

You, your information, and color wheel are all inspiring!
Thank you!!

#58 Kelvin Moody on 03.12.09 at 2:46 am

Yes, Sir; Thank you for asking. My wife needed help on which garments to bring out of the back of the store to put on display. Her manager had told her not to bring out any that clashed. She told my wife to follow the color wheel. Hence, we came to your website via google… Thanks again, Kelvin

#59 Nan on 03.14.09 at 8:13 am

EXCELLENT color wheel - I finally understand where the browns come into it (for instance), where I didn’t before. Thanks so much!

#60 katrina on 03.16.09 at 7:49 am

I would love to see the rings specified, tone, tint, mute, shade. Thanks

#61 kitty on 03.16.09 at 10:41 am

Thank you very much for your color wheel that will help me to do my job well! It helps me to save my time of creating new products.

That’s cool!!!!

#62 shantana on 03.20.09 at 11:48 am

Thanks for this very helpful guide but if possible to create the different tone that can get along (e.g. mustard&black green …). That would be much appreciate and fun, I think so.

#63 Tara on 03.24.09 at 9:17 pm

Yes, I found the color wheel information very helpful, thank you.

#64 jonathan on 03.31.09 at 2:11 am

Color wheel was very helpful.

Thanks

#65 John a on 04.20.09 at 1:51 am

I’m designing a site and it has become helpful…thanks!

#66 k on 04.22.09 at 3:52 am

Thanks for sharing Great articles and looking forward to hear more from you.

Take care!

#67 Carol on 04.25.09 at 9:17 am

Thanks for the Color Wheel…I am getting a lot of use out of it, and out of your site in general!

Thanks again,
Carol

#68 k on 04.26.09 at 11:21 pm

Thank you for sharing! Great articles and am looking forward to see more from you.

#69 k on 04.26.09 at 11:23 pm

Thank you for sharing! Great articles, I really appreciate how simple and easy you make it to read and understanding. I am looking forward to see more from you.

#70 robin on 04.28.09 at 1:41 am

This was the perfect document for what I need…

#71 J williams on 05.07.09 at 12:09 pm

Very helpful

#72 Anthony Whiting on 05.18.09 at 9:08 pm

Sherman –

Love the Color Wheel — with one exception:

It would be SO MUCH BETTER for my studio if it were hard copy, to put up over my work station, not needing to have it on the computer screen. That would make it perfect. Any chance of that coming about — maybe in the fullness of time?

Cheers,

Anthony

#73 Carleen on 06.07.09 at 3:02 pm

Love the colour wheel - I had no idea that such a thing excisted - I am now finding it so much easier to match up my papers to my photos for eye catching appeal for all my scrapbooking pages. Thank you Sherman you are a marvel.

#74 Kemi on 06.18.09 at 10:03 pm

Thanks for the colour wheel. Its just what I need to kickstart my design concepts.

#75 Liliana on 07.06.09 at 3:42 am

Than you again Sherman for the wonderful color wheel, you did a fantastic job, beautiful presentation and design. Most useful for my purpose in color consultation. Love it! you are brilliant like your colors!

#76 Susan on 07.20.09 at 3:30 pm

I am a quilter so I am going to use the color wheel to help me develop the color schemes of my quilts. I really like the way you have demonstrated the different values of each color and suggested how to combine the split complement with accent color. Nice job!

#77 CJ on 07.22.09 at 9:06 pm

It is most helpful. Thank you for your assistance. I have been struggling a bit regarding colors for our master bedroom/bath and your color wheel helped me define what we would need. Thanks again!

#78 Angela on 07.24.09 at 10:55 am

Thank you very much for the color wheel. It will help me to better understand color theory. I plan on doing some redecorating (not professionally) and was having a hard time getting different colors to match correctly. This is so much easier than paint chips and gives more options. A great tool!

#79 Laurie on 07.25.09 at 11:51 pm

I’m a quilter and a long arm machine quilter. I plan to use the color wheel for quilt top color schemes as well as quilting thread color schemes. I’ve printed off the color wheel and hung it on the wall in my studio in a prominent place. Thanks for making this available.

#80 moira walker on 08.03.09 at 12:40 am

Thank you for the colour wheel. I am beginning a course in interior design soon and the colour wheel will be a great help.

#81 Kathy Hall on 08.03.09 at 10:26 pm

The color wheel and information was most helpful. Sometimes when you do not use the rules often you forget them and once you see the wheel (s) it all comes back. I have made a copy and laminated it for future reference. I am sure I will enter the site again. Thanks for the info

#82 Liz on 08.17.09 at 1:31 am

Great color wheel! I am trying to decorate my house and I finally found the right wheel. Thank you.

#83 Burt on 08.31.09 at 9:41 pm

Thanks for the guide. I really need this when I am starting a project. An excellent visual to “FEEL” where you are going

#84 Robert Heron on 09.09.09 at 8:56 pm

Thank you.
I am using the colour wheel to assist individuals who are looking for work. Often we underestimate the importance of colour co ordination when preparing for an interview and self marketing to employers.

#85 Laura on 09.14.09 at 12:35 am

I am a teacher and your colour wheel was most useful for my class!! Thank You for making my job easier.

#86 Frank Young on 09.15.09 at 11:23 pm

Thanks for the color wheel. very helpful.

The only feedback would be to add a few basic examples.

Thanks!

#87 Warren Knipfer on 09.20.09 at 5:52 am

I am use the chart to pick colors for embroidery. It has been most useful.

#88 Leonor on 09.23.09 at 10:42 pm

Thanks for the wheel. I am currently renovating/redecorating our home and the wheel is going to come in very handy! I’ve always had a picture in my mind of the colors I want, but when it comes to accents/complementing colors it starts to get confusing. This is going to be a great help!

#89 Larry Schermerhorn on 10.12.09 at 10:43 pm

was doing a project with shade of brown,it gave me a insight into the color what i was looking for,very helpful thanks

#90 Nilda on 10.17.09 at 12:13 am

Thanks, it’s been very helpful as a resource for me!

#91 Dawn Morris on 10.29.09 at 8:50 am

I would love to purchase this guide you sent in email. Do you have hard copies to mail out.

#92 Judy on 11.16.09 at 9:51 pm

Thanks so much for the color wheel. I was undecided as to what colors to accent my living room with and the wheel helped me pick more than one. Thanks again!

#93 Kremena on 12.02.09 at 6:59 pm

Thank you for the color guide! I am taking a color theory class right now and it is of great use not only to me, but to my professor as well! Keep up with the interesting ideas!

#94 Twayne on 12.09.09 at 3:27 am

Your guide was so helpful thank you. I painted one as a first year assignment in my design course and I must confess I had no clue what I was doing even though I got the colours right and got a decent mark for it. I didn’t even know what the wheel represented until I read your guide. Funny… I only pulled it out from where I dumped it after reading your guide and it all suddenly made sense. And I must say, it has really helped me with my latest colour analysis assignment in my Image Consulting Class.

Thank you once again.

#95 Kemi banjo on 01.13.10 at 4:58 pm

the chart was a very good tool for my work beibg an upcoming designer. it helps me understand blends and how to harmonise. thank you sooooooo ver much

#96 Lynn on 01.17.10 at 7:09 am

Thank you so much. NOW I understand it. It is helping me enormously with my flower arranging course. Keep up the good work.

#97 Joan on 01.26.10 at 6:12 pm

Thank you for the colour wheel, just started a course, found it very useful, didn’t know about the split complement side of it

#98 Diana on 01.28.10 at 7:22 pm

How kind of you to have made The Color Wheel available free. I have printed it and will be using it a great deal as I am an art student and your color wheel has made it already so much easier to understand the teriary colors and the other offshoots of the color wheel.
It will be traveling with me to every art lesson that I attend and it will be by my side whenever I paint.
Thank you very much indeed.

#99 Karen on 02.08.10 at 11:12 am

The information and structure of the colour wheel is so clear and concise and it is helping my husband and I to see the big picture as we are undergoing a room by room update in our house. It helps to see how the colours relate to each other and gives us a lot of reassurance about how colours work together as we tackle our beige rooms, especially ceiling colours. Thank you again so much for making this valuable resource free!!!

#100 Guillermo on 02.09.10 at 2:53 am

It was very useful!!

#101 Monaf on 02.11.10 at 5:06 pm

It is a great refrence

thank u

#102 Brent on 02.14.10 at 7:30 pm

Very helpful and useful, but I’d really appreciate your filling in the remaining 48 boxes with each color’s name. It would be a lot easier for me in matching colors and help in purchasing various clothing colors more exactly.

#103 Brad on 02.24.10 at 9:26 am

Thanks for this it helped a lot for my speech about PowerPoint and choosing colors for the schemes.

#104 Lee Ann on 02.27.10 at 1:42 am

As a landscape designer I find the color wheel to be a very useful tool when selecting the plant palette for a design.

#105 Robin Garberick on 02.28.10 at 10:17 am

it was very useful thanks

#106 Yvonne Street on 03.05.10 at 6:30 pm

I make miniature crocheted bears and the colour wheel has been a great help.

#107 Joyce on 03.08.10 at 12:35 am

Thanks for the free color wheel! I’ll be using it for spring planting in my garden. I’ll aslo be sharing it with my K-class to show how colors complement each other.

#108 Fjola Kristin on 03.21.10 at 9:24 pm

Thank you. Your color wheel is very good. I’m a teacher and the theory of colors is one of my subjects. I find it excellent to use with other color wheels when I’m explaining the theory of colors.

#109 Fjola Kristin on 03.22.10 at 1:47 am

Adding to my comment earlyer:
To fit my needs even better would be to make larger the ring where the 12 color hues are - so as to make them stand out more.

#110 holly on 04.07.10 at 3:24 am

i thought it was very concise. i use it alot when planning my felt making. thankyou

#111 Georg on 04.17.10 at 1:57 am

Thank you for this very useful summary of the colour wheel and its applications. I find the graphical examples (a god example is the split complement) very clear and of practical value. I really can not think of any improvement, but if you want to continue then perhaps a few more practical examples of use would be interesting. I am a (serious) amateur artist.
Best regards and thanks to you
Georg

#112 RenataK on 04.20.10 at 2:03 pm

Your color wheel it’s very useful and quite easy to understand relations among colors. I’ll use it in my jewelry making projects. Thank you for shearing this with us.

#113 Lorraine on 04.21.10 at 9:30 pm

I’m really pleased with the color wheel. It helped me to choose the complimentary colors to the wall colors we were trying to select. My difficulty was that we wre trying to find the right colors to go with our new kitchen cabinets which are a reddish brownish clove color. Could not decide where to start.
Thank you for your gift

#114 Carl Kruck on 04.23.10 at 1:23 pm

Thanks for the colour wheel! We are looking at using it for balancing complimentary colours of backgrounds and text for video projection onto big screens in our church services and other events.

#115 Angela on 04.24.10 at 8:20 pm

Hi,
The colour wheel was 90 % of what I was looking for. Thank you.
My aim is to find a colour to black and white guide.
A visual representation of what they look like when printed in B&W.
Just had a thought, I could print your colour wheel in B&W. The shades are the tricky thing. But the colour wheel is great. Brilliant.
It makes sense.
Thank you
Angela

#116 Karen on 05.02.10 at 1:18 am

I really appreciate you color wheel information. I am a quilter who is still struggling with chosing colors, etc. So you have helped me very much. Keep up the wonderful work.
Karen

#117 Sheila M. Cornish on 05.06.10 at 1:53 pm

Hello Carl, I did indeed like your color wheel. However, I especially enjoyed reading the whole article about color. I will likely go back and read it more thoroughly. I forwarded your url to my painting instructor, thinking she might like to refer some of her beginning students to your article. Thank you so much…Sheila

#118 Sherman C. on 05.06.10 at 3:09 pm

Hi Sheila, my name’s Sherman, not Carl.

#119 Carole on 05.23.10 at 5:43 pm

Hi Sherman,

Yes, I did appreciate your colour wheel. I am using it for a presentation I have to give on colours and will use it in the future as a guide to choose my colours when doing design work. Thanks for making it available.

Carole

#120 Kathy on 06.10.10 at 11:56 pm

Sherman, thanks for the color wheel; I’m an oil painter so I have the compliments down, but I wanted my mother-in-law to have it; she’s painting the inside of her house and it really was a good tool in helping her make decisions. Great response! thanks again!

#121 Maggie on 06.16.10 at 10:12 am

Thank you so much for the color guide. I have printed it and will be using it a lot as I have just purchased a new house. Your color guide helps me to identify the color theme I will use it for my house. Appreciate so much!!

#122 Angèle Desgagné, AICI CIP on 06.19.10 at 4:04 am

Hello Sherman,
As an Image Consultant, I train new image consultants in Image, Colour, & Etiquette. While doing research on colours for my Colour Analysis Training, I found your colour wheel and was really excited to discover that you offer a free download of your colour wheel in a PDF format. Thank you for your generosity.

During my last colour training, I used your PDF file to show my students … the wheel, compliments, and so on. It is really awesome. It is clear, and well organized.

In regards to your question: How to improve it further …

• Because of the trainings I do, I would be looking for more examples of colour relationships such as:
• tertiary colours (you already have the primary and secondary colours)
• a triad
• an incomplete triad
• a tetrad
• an incomplete tetrad
• double complimentary
• split analogous
• analogous compliment
• It would be great to be able to incorporate your wheel and examples in my PowerPoint Presentation (even for a fee)
I hope that is helpful.

#123 Kimberley on 07.16.10 at 1:07 pm

We were looking for a complimentary color for our new bathroom. Yes, the color wheel was extremely helpful.
thank you.

#124 Joan on 07.19.10 at 4:31 pm

Thank you for the great color guide. I love the format and finally get it! I added it to my blog.

I wish I could combine all of the color schemes on one page. Then I’d do a screen shot. When I needed a scheme I’d open the screen shot file with my PSE or PS file and use the color picker eye dropper to choose my colors. Would be great! I know what i like when I see it but i sure can’t figure out how to get it - here’s a start! Mahalo.

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