Colour wheel theory

Using colour in knitting and crochet to help improve your wellbeing. Using colour wheel theory to choose colours for knitting and crochet

Do you struggle to find the correct colors for your knitting or crochet project? Then this article is for you! In this article we’ll look at color theory and how it can be applied. We also give you our favorite color palette generators! What is color theory? Color theory basically encompasses the ways in which color is used, for example, in design. Color Matter notes that “there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful : The color wheel, color harmony, and the…

A blog about how to properly combine colors and how to use a color wheel with different tints, tones, and shades.

When you think about the world around you, color is one of the most important things we see. It affects our mood, can bring us joy, strike up memories, or draw attention. Think about how absolutely dull our world would be if we only saw it in black and white! I think there's a myth […]

A colour wheel of equally spaced 24 hues and 5 tones each giving a representative colour vocabulary of 120 mostly saturated colours. Each colour is named after an unambiguous real world examplar and an example is given to justify the name. Finally, we can name colours accurately in a common sense manner without resorting to arcane Pantone numbers, incorrect web colours or clumsy Munsell names.

Ok, Ok, Its pretty obvious I’m on a crusade to get you all getting jiggy with the colour vibe. So I’ve decided in this post to get right back to basics. Sharpen your pencils boys and girls; we’re going back to school to learn a bit about the theory of colour. Out there in the […]