There are many time tested ways of combining color. If I wanted to impress – or more likely bore you – I’d tell you about Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split complementary, Triadic, Tetradic, and Square color schemes.
Are your eyes glazing over? Don’t worry, this Color Combination Cheat Sheet lets you skip the boring lecture and cuts straight to the chase.
Pick a color – any color you wish, and find it in the list below. Beside it are proven color schemes that will work with your color of choice.
White combines with everything, especially blue, red and black.
Beige combines with blue, brown, emerald, black, red, and white.
Gray combines with fuchsia, red, violet, pink, and blue.
Pink combines with brown, white, mint green, olive, gray, turquoise, and light blue.
Fuchsia (a dark pink) combines with gray, yellow-brown, lime, mint green, and brown.
Red combines with white, yellow, dull reddish-yellow, brownish-yellow, green, blue, and black.
Tomato-red combines with cyan, mint green, sand, creamy-white, and gray.
Cherry-red combines with azure, gray, light-orange, sand, pale-yellow, and beige.
Raspberry-red combines with white, black, and damask rose.
Brown combines with bright-cyan, cream, pink, fawn, green, and beige.
Light-brown combines with pale-yellow, cream-white, blue, green, purple, and red.
Dark-brown combines with lime-yellow, cyan, mint green, purple-pink, and lime.
Reddish-brown combines with pink, dark-brown, blue, green, and purple.
Orange combines with cyan, blue, lilac, violet, white, and black.
Light-orange combines with gray, brown, and olive.
Dark-orange combines with pale-yellow, olive, brown, and cherry.
Yellow combines with blue, lilac, light-cyan, violet, gray, and black.
Lemon-yellow combines with cherry-red, brown, blue, and gray.
Pale-yellow combines with fuchsia, gray, brown, shades of red, yellowish brown, blue, and purple.
Golden yellow combines with gray, brown, azure, red, and black.
Olive combines with orange, light-brown, and brown.
Green combines with golden-brown, orange, salad green, yellow, brown, gray, cream, black, and creamy-white.
Salad green combines with brown, yellowish-brown, fawn, gray, dark-blue, red, and gray.
Turquoise combines with fuchsia, cherry-red, yellow, brown, cream, and dark-violet.
Electric colors combine with golden-yellow, brown, light brown, gray, or silver.
Cyan combines with red, gray, brown, orange, pink, white, and yellow.
Dark-blue combines with light-lilac, cyan, yellowish-green, brown, gray, pale-yellow, orange, green, red, and white.
Lilac combines with orange, pink, dark-violet, olive, gray, yellow, and white.
Dark-violet combines with golden-brown, pale-yellow, gray, turquoise, mint green, and light-orange.
Black is a universal color— it Looks elegant in any combination, especially with orange, pink, salad green, white, red, mauve, or yellow.
FYI: It’s not necessary to combine the color you chose with every color listed beside it. When decorating, use various shades, tints, and intensities of one dominant color 60%; with 30% of a second color; and add 10% of an accent to give a pop of color to your décor. Your walls will likely be the 60% color; your major fabrics will likely be the 30%; and your accessories, like a floral arrangement or throw pillows, will make up your 10% accent.
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