The color wheel is a tool for understanding color(色彩心理学：设计师的选色指南).docVIP

The color wheel is a tool for understanding color and color relationships. 色环是一种帮助我们理解色彩和色彩关系的工具。 The most common color wheel is the twelve (12) hue wheel. A color wheel could have as few as six hues or as many as 24, 48, 96 or more. 最常见的色环是 12 色环。通常一个色环包含至少 6 种、多到 24、48、96 或更多种颜色。 Yellow Yellow-Green Green Blue-Green Blue Blue-Violet Violet Red-Violet Red Red-Orange Orange Yellow-Orange 黄色 黄绿色 绿色 蓝绿色 蓝色 蓝紫色 紫色 紫红色 红色 红橙色 橙色 黄橙色 ? There are three primary colors. They are the hues yellow, blue and red. These three colors are the hues that theory can be mixed to make all other colors. If you mix the three primary colors, in theory it would produce black. 色环中有三种原色。它们分别是红、黄、蓝。理论上这三种颜色可以混合出任何其它颜色。当你把这三种颜色混合到一起时，理论上会产生黑色。（译注：本文的三原色理论基于较传统的颜料消减型混合体系，有别于计算机领域常用的 RGB 光源叠加型三基色体系和 CMY 印刷消减型分色体系。延伸阅读：?原色 – 维基百科） By mixing two primary hues together you create a secondary color. There are three secondary colors. They are the hues green, violet (purple) and orange. Orange from mixing red and yellow, violet (purple) from blue and red, and green from yellow and blue. 通过混合两种原色，你将得到一种间色。总共有三种间色，分别是绿色、紫色、橙色。橙色由红和黄混合而来，紫色由蓝和红混合而来，而绿色由黄和蓝混合而来。 The third set of hues are known as tertiary or intermediate colors. These hues are made by mixing adjacent primary and secondary hues. The six tertiary or intermediate colors are yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange. 色环中的第三类颜色就是复色，或称为三次色。它们是由色环中邻近的原色和间色混合而来。这六种复色分别是黄绿色、蓝绿色、蓝紫色、紫红色、红橙色、黄橙色。 ? Hue: A hue is the purest or brightest form of a color. Hues are colors that have not been mixed with white, gray, or black. The twelve colors around on the outermost part of the wheel are hues. 纯色：纯色是一种颜色最纯最亮的形态，是还没和白、灰或黑色进行混合时的形态。色环最外圈的 12 种颜色即代表了 12 种纯色。 Tint: The circle of colors next to the hues represent the tint of each hue. A tint is the hue mixed with white. The hue may be mixed with just a touch of white or with so much white that the hue is very faint. 浅色：色环向内紧贴纯色的一环就是各种色彩的浅色形态。浅色是纯色与白色混合后的结果。纯色可以只混入一丁点儿