If you’re like me, you may not have a natural eye for design. I can tell what looks good, but it’s hard for me to create something of my own that looks good. I can’t be reborn with a natural instinct for creating art. But, I can learn it with science through Color Theory.
Color theory is a set of principles governing what color combinations are pleasing to us. It explains how some colors can be good together and some can’t. It’s a scientific approach to certain colors and color combinations.
The color wheel is a circle that displays all the colors in a gradient. Color harmony is a concept in color theory. Creating certain combinations of colors is important to determine which colors match and which don't.
The key to creating the most harmonious color combinations is to use colors that are equidistant on the color wheel. For example, if you are looking at two colors, they should be on opposite ends of the color wheel. If you’re looking at three colors, they should be equidistant so that they form an equilateral triangle if you draw points between them. Four colors would form consist of two pairs of colors opposite each other. And so on. It’s all about symmetry to create harmony.
Two sites you can use to deduct the color wheel color combinations are Adobe Color and PalettteOn. Here is a video explaining how to use PaletteOn to take the best pictures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVA5nsOC0qE
This harmony satisfies a sense of balance in the viewer. Even if the viewer is unaware of that perfect harmony on the color wheel, their instincts feel it. The brain rejects what it can’t organize and accepts what balance to create a logical derivation of interest and order.