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The Color Wheel

The color wheel most people are familiar with includes high intensity pure colors. While you may not use these vibrant colors as they appear on the wheel for your home decorating schemes, the principles associate with this helpful tool will assist in ensuring you achieve the effect you want to create.
There are 12 colors in a standard color wheel that are divided into three designations; primary colors (pure red, blue and yellow), secondary colors, which are a combination of two primary colors and include orange (red + yellow), green (yellow + blue) and violet (blue + red), and the tertiary colors, which are a combination of primary and secondary color, and are identified by the names of the colors used; blue-green, yellow-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange and yellow-orange.