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Multi-hue color schemes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Color for Design and Art
Multi-hue color schemes
- Here is a simple, streamlined, and flexible way of coming up with good-looking and communicative color schemes. And I use it all the time, in condensed form, it looks like this. I start with a color that I love, and then I look for and add other colors that go well with my starter hue. Now, I know that was pretty fast right there so let me slow things down and expand on this process for you. And I'll fill you in on what makes this palette-building technique almost as simple as I just made it look. So, like I said, my starter color is always a color that I really like and this means one of two things. First, if I'm working on a personal project it means just like what it sounds like it means. It means I start with a color that I really like you know for whatever reason and I call this color my starter color, or my seed color. But, if I'm working on a client's project and I say I love this color, it actually means something different, it means I found a color that I think will appeal…
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