Moriarty Colour Wheel - a definitive guide

• It's so easy

  MATCH colour by:

  • hue – position around colour wheels (top has 36 hues; lower has 18 hues)
  • purity-saturation – pure to grey (top)
  • tone-value – light to dark, pure hues with tone scale between (lower)
  • pigment – by code (lower)

  MIX colour:

  • move guide to place your colour along a pathway
  • mix hues at both ends to create it
  • many pathways will cover a colour
  • choose pigments or use colours you have – no waste
  • lighten with white & darken with complementary – use to pathway
  • mix pure colours within sections between Cyan, Magenta & Yellow using to pathway
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• CREATE your perfect colour palette:

  • choose the hue that you want to dominate
  • choose a hue to support your colour
  • move guide to place these colours on a pathway
  • use pathway colours to create colour combinations, as these share hues along that path, balancing similarity and difference
  • use colours within to pathway to centre of wheel, as these will also harmonise beautifully, creating coloured light
  • use complementary colours in equal proportions to create a neutral palette

  Complementary

  • Hues are correctly placed as complementaries (opposite) on the colour wheel and will mix black; use to pathway
  • Moriarty Colour Wheel is printed without adding black (K)
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