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The human eye can distinguish about 7 million different colors. This can make finding just the right color pretty daunting.
Knowing just a little about color—and the classic color wheel—can really help you make your color decisions.
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The Primaries. All colors are made up of three primaries—red, blue and yellow.
The Secondaries. When you combine the primaries, you get the three secondary colors: Orange, green and purple.
The Tertiaries. Then, when you combine each secondary with its neighboring primary, you get the six tertiary colors — and the familiar 12-spoke color wheel.
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Rule One: Family is Always Welcome.
Most colors look great with shades from the same family as themselves—reds go with other reds, greens with greens. These are the popular monochromatic schemes, all drawn from a single color.
Rule Two: Next Door Neighbors are Friends.
You can also use colors from next door on the color wheel—in the case of red, that’s orange and violet. These are called analogous schemes.
Rule Three: Opposites Attract.
Every color has a natural complement on the opposite side of the color wheel— that’s why red and green look so good together. These are complementary color schemes. Warm colors have cool complements while cool colors have warm complements.
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Warm or Cool. Every color has a temperature. It's either warm—from the red/yellow side of the spectrum, or cool—from the blue/violet side.
Light or Dark. It may be the lightest of lights, or the darkest of darks.
Bright or Quiet. Lastly, it has an intensity, or chroma. High intensity colors are pure, bright and brilliant. Low intensity colors are quiet and subdued.
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Take a look at the new BEHR Color Center the next time you’re in Home Depot. While it’s not a color wheel, the colors are arranged in exactly the same way.
There are six vertical sections (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple), plus an extra section for neutrals (colors that go with any other color).
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In the new BEHR PREMIUM PLUS system, every color comes in three different values.
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Pure
(bright, or high chroma)
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Muted
(lower intensity than the Pure colors)
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Shaded
(the darker values)
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Apply your understanding of the color wheel to the BEHR PREMIUM PLUS system to select coordinating color schemes any decorator would be proud of.
Or, look for the Pure, Muted or Shaded mini-card in each color section—each one offers you three ready-to-use color schemes.
There’s even a room picture of each scheme, so you can see how it looks!
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Try the ColorSmart™ by BEHR interactive program to experiment with thousands of different color combinations and see how they look in actual room settings.
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