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Meet Your New Best Friend. This color designer tool turns the subjective selection of color combinations into a no-mistake, precision choice.

25,000 No-Mistake, Tone-on-Tone Combinations

• Teaches you the 12 color hue families.
  • »Know where Red-Orange ends and Orange begins.
  • »This is crucial for precision coordinating.
• Identifies within each family White, Brown, and Black Tones.
  • »Each Hue family creates color blends.
  • »Coordinating Undertones is a unique coordinator benefit.
• Matching/measuring a hue/tone before Coordinating.
  • »Is it Palm Green (Lime Green Hue: a Black undertone)?
  • »Or Olive Green (Green Hue: a Brown undertone)?
• Color Language Included: Gives a reason to use or not to use each color.
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How It Works

• Flip- #1, #2 : COMPLEMENTS and NEUTRAL COMPLEMENTS
• Flip- #3, #4, #5: SPLIT COMPLEMENTS AND NEUTRAL SPLIT COMPLEMENTS
• Flip- #6, #7: TRIADIC COMBINATIONS
• Flip- #8: NEUTRAL COLOR BLENDS
• SUBDUE- Complements
  • »Tone down bright colors to enable a bolder palette.
  • »Spice them up with lighter and dark shades.
• POP-Split Complements
  • »Maintain Traditional look, even with bold colors.
  • »Use all three to create design continuity.
• CLASSIC-Triadic

Example of Tone-on-Tone Precision Color Combinations

“I literally have had Graphic Designers embrace the coordinator with tears, especially the color language and the brown tone connections. Amazing!”

-Tom Wright - Director of Design, Neenah Paper

The Dewey Color Wheel

Now, you instantly know each hue’s impact.

• THE BLACK ARROW: Your Starting Point
  • »Aim it at a color and instantly see every hue’s combination.
  • »Imagine spinning it around and imagine the usages of this tool.
• RED TYPE: Big Color Decisions
  • »Complements, Split Complements, Triad/Triadic
  • »All these combinations are automatic in the coordinator.
• GREEN TYPE: Little Color Decisions
  • »Tetrad is a distance of 3.
  • »Diad is a distance of 2, one hue apart from a color.
  • »Analogous (Anl), the adjoining hue

Big vs. Little Color Decisions

• BIG DESIGN DECISIONS
  • »Large visual objects, background colors
  • »For maximum impact, pick these first in compiling a design.
  • »All these combinations are in the ultimate “Color Cheat Sheet” – The Coordinator.
• SMALL COLOR DECISIONS
  • »Small visual objects. Weave these into designs when situations dictate.
  • »Use color language to increase the impact.
  • »These combinations are instantly identified on the Dewey Color Wheel.

When to Use “Little Color Decisions”

• SHOCK- Tetrad
  • »Call attention to objects, logos, or products.
  • »Create a balancing optical illusion, making a space appear to end.
• SOOTHE- Diad
  • »Evoke soothing texture by subliminally creating a middle color.
  • »Provide a conservative image.  Use shared split-complement for more energy.
• SYNTHESIZE- Analogous
  • »Can appear off-color, if used as a “big color decision.”
  • »As a “little color decision," fuses depth and texture.

DEWEY COLOR PUZZLE

This fun yet challenging interactive puzzle trains a student’s eye to see subtle differences in each hue and to visualize the entire spectrum. It teaches the order of color spectrum as well. Experiencing how each color hue fits implants a mind-visual that enables students to better utilize basic color theory in this course.

COLOR LANGUAGE

Home Décor Courses

Décor Industry:

How do you want to feel in a room --calm, reflective, expressive, or conclusive?

Graphics Industry:

What type of image do you want to project -- responsible, comfort-giving, stable/conservative, friendly, problem-solver?

Fashion Industry:

This secure, guilt-free color combination will allow you to worry less and feel more confident. Others will see you as a self-assured person. Using this combination will enhance your social presence.