This presents a challenge in defining a triad color harmony since 10 does not equally divided into three. Each of the primary and intermediate colors are allocated a range of ten degrees on the color circle and are located at the mid-point of this segment. The color wheel is measured off in one hundred compass points resulting in 100 steps on the hue circle.
The intermediate hues are defined as Yellow Red (YR), Green Yellow GY), Blue Green (BG), Purple Blue (PB), and Red Purple (RP). These principal hues are separated by five intermediate or mixture colors. These principal hues are Red (R), Yellow Y), Green (G), Blue (B) and Purple (P) and are equally spaced in clockwise order around a color circle or wheel. For Munsell Color Harmony, this is not possible since there are a total number of ten hues spaced around the wheel.Īs we discussed in our earlier blog entry on, “ Visual Analytics with Complementary and Analogous Color Harmony,” the Munsell color order system defines hue attributes as actual colors and establishes five principal hues. Typically, a triad color harmony uses three colors that are equally spaced around a color wheel where the total numbers of hues can be divided into three.
