COLOUR THEORY IN FASHION DESIGN

Color theory is crucial for any clothing, shoes, or accessories you design. Color can make or break your design and leave you with an unsold product. When designing clothes, it is essential to know which colors work, how to create them, and the color terms used by the fashion industry. 


Fashion Color Theory – Differences in Primary Colors




Let's start with the basics of color theory and related operations. A color wheel is an important tool for fashion designers and something you will refer to when choosing and deciding on a color palette for your designs. The color wheel, wheel, or circle, shows the spectrum of colors and their relationship to each other. The usual number of colors on the wheel is 12, although some use up to 24 colors.

Primary colors are something you may or may not know. Traditional primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. There are several different opinions and arguments as to why red, blue, and yellow are not really the primary colors. Some people choose CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, also called a key) or CMY as primary colors. You may have noticed that your printer is test printing and using CMYK ink cartridges. Yet some argue that RGB - red, green, and blue - is the ultimate trio.

Controversies and arguments about which colors are true to primary colors are not new. You can read Aristotle's work on colors and while there are no definitive answers about the right set of primary colors, as a designer you should know that there are different ways to color and understand that this What does the word mean? You may work with or for someone who prefers one set of keys over another. For example, RGB is a good base for working with lightings such as projection and web pages/displays. CMYK is a good base for tangible things like reproductions/images.

What Hues Make Up the Color Wheel?


In addition to the RYB colors (red, yellow, and blue), the second and third colors appear on the color wheel. The other colors are purple (or purple), green, and orange; These are made by mixing primary colors together Combining the first and second colors gives blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, and blue-purple - higher colors. These 12 colors make up the color palette.

Color VST – Value, Saturation, and Temperature

Have you ever heard of cold and warm colors? If you divide the color wheel in half, you get out to warm colors. Green, blue, and purple are the coolest; Yellow, red, and orange are the warmest colors. The word temperature is used, so if someone asks what the color temperature is, answer cold or warm. Blue is the warmest color and orange is the most incredible color in the round.

The value represents the lightness or darkness of a color. If you know a color has a higher value, the color has a lighter value, and if someone says a color has a lower value, the color has a darker value.

Saturation is how intense or intense color is. Blue is pure blue with no other colors added.


Color Tints, Shades, Tones, and Mutes

Designers can reduce saturation and create new colors using tints, shades, tones, and mutes. It can soften, lighten, darken, dull, or mute a color.

Shadow = Color + White

Tint = color + black

Tone = Color + Grey

Mute = color + its complementary color

The undertones of shades, shades, tones, and mutes can vary depending on the cold or warmth of the white, black, gray, and complementary colors. If you want to create a warm orange, it is best to experiment with warm undertones. 


An Introduction to Color Schemes

There are six common color schemes:


1. Complementary Colors


A Complimentary Is A Color's Opposite Color On The Color Wheel. For Example,
yellow complimentary Color Vaiolet.

2. Split Complementary Colors



This scheme takes one color and instead of using complementary colors, you use the colors next to it. We know that red complements green, so the split complement scheme is green, red-orange, and red-violet.

3. Triadic


A triadic color scheme is three colors evenly spaced apart from each other on the wheel. ,  yellow, green, and violet a triadic color schemes.

4. Tetradic


Also known as Square, this scheme uses four colors evenly spaced on the color wheel.

5. Analogous



This scheme includes colors, typically three but there can be more, that are like colors. Green, blue/green, and blue is an analogous color schemes.

6. Monochromatic

This scheme is where one hue is used with variations of any number of tints, tones, shades, and mutes.


This setting is useful in knowing when to choose colors for your design and communicating what you want.


With a little understanding of color theory, you can easily critique your work and figure out if something isn’t working or why. The above information is a good foundation of color theory to get you started in your designs, especially when working with Fashion Illustrator software. One of the best ways to learn more about color theory is to practice mixing colors, experimenting, and having fun making colors. You can also work with a professional fabric designer or accessories to create fabrics with custom colors, washes, and more.

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