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Color Schemes derived from the Color Wheel for Red
A red monochromatic color scheme provides a sensuous feeling to a room.
A Red and Green complementary color scheme provides wonderful contrast, one of the colors should dominate and the other used as an accent.
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A Red, Blue - Green and Yellow - Green, split complementary color scheme allows you to introduce other colors whilst still retaining a high contrast scheme. This works well with floral or patterned fabrics, using them for drapery, upholstery and bedding. This creates a powerful meaning to a color scheme. Red, Yellow and Blue, a triadic color scheme ( in this case the primary colors) creates a stimulating and bold use of red based on a strong chroma (brightness of the color) but if used with a tint (white added to a color) we get quite a different feel, pink, lemon, and baby blue, this creates a warm and luxurious use of the color. Red, Red - Violet, and Violet, an example of an analogous color scheme. This type of scheme is easy on the eye as it uses colors that are beside each other on the color wheel and therefore closely related. It is useful to use when you want to make a harmonious space but does create more movement than a simple monochromatic scheme. Vigorous comes to mind for this use of red. |
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 Red, Red - Violet, Green and Yellow Green make up a dual complementary color scheme. This allows you to combine multiple colors knowing that they will work in harmony. Ideal for patterned fabrics, florals, using different finishes in one room for example wallpaper, upholstery fabric and drapes, tiles and flower arrangements. This is a brave and physical use of the color red.
Red, Orange, Green and Blue combine to form a tetrad color scheme. This type of combination allows for a greater range of different colors to be combined, similar advantages as the dual complementary, but just adds more color variation. Ideal to use when you want to have lots of movement and action, the red takes on an advancing and celebratory feeling. The meanings and associations of Red >> |
