Contrasts will help to make the situation more expressive or zonate space - we tell how to work with them with them using the Yohannes color circle.
Surely you have repeatedly met the phrase "contrasting accents" or faced with the recommendations to make the situation "more contrast". At first glance, everything seems quite clear: contrast means, the opposite, and if you add black parts into the white interior, it will definitely become more contrasting. But what if your interior is not at all white or black, but color? What shades add, and most importantly - how and why do it? We understand together.
What do you need contrasts in the interior
To begin with, let's understand why contrasts are needed in the interior. Here is just a small share of what they can:
- make the situation more expressive;
- give volume, get away from boring, flat interior;
- allocate part of the room (create an accent surface);
- Separate a section of the room, visually supporting the zoning of space;
- Fill the interior with color and "anchors".
Color Circle on Johannesu Itten
How to choose a harmonious color gamut or add contrast shades to the interior? The simplest and most common solution is to take advantage of the color circle proposed at one time by the Swiss artist, a theorist of new art, teacher Johannes, the author of the legendary book "Art of Color".
This is what the color circle of Iohannesu Itten looks like. It is for him that designers are most often oriented, picking up a harmonious color gamut for the interior.
In the center of the circle - a triangle compiled by primary colors: yellow, blue, red. Three more colors (secondary) "completing" this triangle to the hexagon: Blue mixing with yellow gives green, red with yellow - orange, red with blue - purple. The hexagon vertices rest in the primary and secondary colors of the circle, and between them in the circle there are tertiary shades: in addition, we get yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green.
How to use the color circle
How will the color circle help in the selection of contrasting combinations, how to use it? There are a lot of options, we suggest relying on the simplest and most common.1. Duet of opposite colors circle
The colors located on the colors circle opposite each other are called complementary, complementary or contrasting.
However, be careful: it will become a mistake to combine these tones in the interior in equal proportions. To achieve harmony, one color should be done by the main one, and the second to add dosage, as accents.
Red + green, blue + orange, yellow + purple, blue-green + red-orange - such combinations are perfect pairs from the point of view of contrast.
2. Triada
If the basis of the interior you decided to choose three shades, mentally draw an equilateral triangle on the color circle (simply speaking, select three color equidistant from each other).
Examples of such combinations: Red-purple + blue-green + yellow-orange, red + blue + yellow, red-orange + yellow-green + blue-violet.
Designers advise the use of three contrasting colors in the proportions of 60/30/10 percent.
3. Combination of close shades of the circle
If you are not a fan of sharp contrasts, this option for you: Create a color gamut of the interior, based on 2-5 tones, located in a row in a color circle.
It may be, for example, purple + blue-violet + blue. Or Yellow + yellow-orange + red + red-orange.
4. Separate-complementary combination
This diagram of the selection of contrasting combinations is similar to the first, but in a pair to the chosen tone, it takes not one - the opposite color in the color circle, and two shades adjacent to the complementary.
Such combinations will be fairly contrasting, but not so sharp as the duets of complementary colors.
So, in the company to green instead of the Red, you can pick up red-orange and red-purple. And to the blue-purple - yellow and orange.
5. Rectangle
If you are of those who always have little color in the interior, we offer two selection schemes for harmonious contrasting combinations of four shades. The first is "Rectangle".
Mentally draw this figure on the color circle - and get the combinations of red-orange + blue-violet + blue-green + yellow-orange, red + purple + yellow + green, etc.
6. Square
The second - "Square", with its help you will pick up a combination: red-orange + purple + blue-green + yellow, red-purple + blue + yellow-green + orange and pr.
Usually one color is chosen by the main, two - complementary, and one uses point, for rare accents.
