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Choosing Paint Colors: Analogous Colors
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Tones, Shades and Tints
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Analogous colors are neighboring colors on the color wheel. You might think of them (if you are a musician) as "half steps" , or more logically "twelfth steps" on the twelve color wheel.
Analogous colors are slight hue changes from each other, and they always blend well together. Color palettes of these colors are very harmonious, and "safe", because they are subtle hues changes. Contrast this to complementary colors which are directly opposite, these color choices are pleasing to most observers.
When choosing paint colors for your house, you really should have the widest range paint paletter available to choose from. Using the standard paint color wheel, we can determine what colors will work with our primary color choice.
Choosing paint colors helps if you are familiar with a little color theory, and what makes for color harmony. Both Analogous paint colors and shades, tints and tones of a primary paint color are the simpliest, most harmonious paint color palettes you can use for a room or house exterior.
The Color Wheel
An analogous paint color palette for a room might be a green, a yellow green and a blue green.
Another analogous paint color scheme could be a blue, blue/violet and a blue green. Etc.........
The simpliest color palette and the most subtle is using shades, tints, and tones of a primiary paint color choice. If you want to use color but keep it "quiet", using
A common color scheme using tones, shades and tints would be to use a primary color (beige for example) for the walls, and lightly tinted version of this for the ceiling. A shade (darker version - black added to darken the color) of beige might be used for the curtains or furniture fabric.
shades and tints is the way to go about paint color selection.
Note: Tints are the primary paint color with white added. Shades are the primary color with black added. Tones are the primary color with the opposite complement color added.
Tints work well for faux finiish rag painting or sponge painting. Use two or three shades or tints of a chosen primary color.
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