What are color wheels and guides?
Colors are divided into four categories: primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, and complementary colors. Using many color wheels, an artist can line up a primary color on the dial with any color on the outside wheel. The mixed colors appear in a window. These guides provide a handy reference for designers on how primary, secondary, and tertiary colors relate and look when placed next to one another or mixed. Color wheels and guides are especially useful for designers interested is seeing how bold or exotic colors will interact with one another within a space or object. Color wheels are reference tools used by artists to illustrate the relationships between colors. The traditional color wheel for light features the colors magenta, yellow, and cyan arranged across from one another in points that form an equilateral triangle when connected by straight lines. Another triangle is created by the alignment of the colors red, green, and blue. Connecting all 6 of these points forms
