How To Match Colors

When you re matching colors try to pair warm colors with warm colors and cool colors with cool colors since they ll go well together.

How to match colors.

If an absolute match isn t critical you might eyeball the paint options at the store and choose one that seems the closest to the color you want to match. Most major paint brands have their own apps for matching paint colors including sherwin williams behr glidden and valspar. This means they re high contrast pairs so the key to using two complementary colors and without looking like a clown is to make one of them a darker shade. Visit the app store on your smartphone and choose an app that will scan your wall color and provide you with a color match.

Violet orange red yellow blue green. For example if you want to wear green pants and a red shirt and it s not christmas and you re not going to a holiday theme party simply. A combination of 4 colors that are equidistant from each other on the color circle. To match colors try choosing analogous colors which are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

For example you could try red and pink yellow and orange or blue and purple. Download a paint matching app if you can t take a sample. You can use the same process with camtasia to match the color of callouts text and other shapes to specific colors in a video. In this case the colors differ from each other in tone but are also complementary.

Simply put complementary colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel from each other. The color matching feature in most color pickers is indicated by an eyedropper icon.