Colors

Primary colors: yellow, red, and blue. These colors aren't mixed.

Secondary colors: green, purple, and orange. These colors are a mixture of one primary color mixed with the primary color next to it. For example, yellow mixed with red equals orange, which can be found between the two primary colors on the color wheel.

Tertiary colors: yellow-green, blue-green, red-orange, etc. These colors are a mixture of  primary and secondary colors that are placed between the two mixed colors.

Warm colors use red and yellow and pop to the front.
Cool colors use blue and fall to the back.

CMYK: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This color model is used for physical printing, such as a book or photo, and can use as many colors as one chooses.

RGB: red, green, and blue. This color model is used on screen, such as a computer monitor or phone, and uses these three colors mixed throughout the screen to make other colors like purple.

After discussing colors in class, our group decided to use burgundy as an accent color and an off-white (leaning towards yellow) for our background. The burgundy color is a warm color that will pop to the front, which will draw the viewers eye towards it. By using these two colors, we will be using an analogous color scheme with black for most of the text. Also, Dr. Rice mentioned pulling colors from images used throughout the website, so we will be doing that as well. Since we are going to use an analogous color scheme, we can incorporate shades and tints of orange along with red and yellow. As long as we remember what we've learned about colors, we should be able to make good color choices.