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Chromatic Circle 23.5 cm.
Reference: 44-5502- MILAN 23.5 cm colour wheel, made from high-quality printed card and printed in the USA by The Color Wheel Company.
- Double-sided rotating disc: one side mixes colours and shows the result in a window, the other identifies harmonies (complementary, triadic, tetradic, analogous...).
- Shows all 12 colours of the colour wheel: 3 primary, 3 secondary and 6 tertiary, plus a grey scale and definitions of hue, tone and value.
- Professional, pedagogical tool for painters, fine art students, designers and decorators.
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- Colour Wheel 23.5 cm.
- Rotating tool for observing the basic organisation and the relationship between primary, secondary and tertiary colours.
The colour wheel is an essential tool for any artist or art lover who wants to understand colour theory and learn how to combine colours correctly: it's a wheel that displays a spectrum of colours in a circular layout. The way the colours are arranged helps you see how they relate to one another, guiding you toward the combination you're after.
What are the 12 colours of the colour wheel
This colour wheel includes the 12 main colours: 3 primary, 3 secondary and 6 tertiary. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow, and they're the basis for creating every other colour. The secondary colours are green, orange and purple, made by mixing two primaries. Finally, the tertiary colours — such as red-orange — come from mixing a primary colour with an adjacent secondary.
How to use the colour wheel
The colour wheel is essential for working out balanced, harmonious colour combinations. One of its most common uses is building colour harmonies: sets of colours suited to conveying a particular mood or a specific message.
The most-used colour schemes are monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic and tetradic. Monochromatic schemes use variations of a single colour; analogous schemes use neighbouring colours on the wheel; complementary schemes use opposite colours; split-complementary uses one colour plus the two either side of its opposite; triadic uses three equidistant colours on the wheel; and tetradic uses four colours arranged in complementary pairs.
Applications of the colour wheel
The colour wheel is used above all by designers, decorators and photographers. For artists in particular, it's a basic tool for creating logos, brand imagery and conveying feeling through colour.
MILAN colour wheel — technical details
This 23.5 cm colour wheel is made from high-quality printed card, weighs around 100 g, and is printed in the USA by The Color Wheel Company under the MILAN brand. It's not just a chart: it's a double-sided rotating tool meant to be used, not just looked at.
On the front, an inner disc turns against the outer ring and shows, in a cut-out window, what you get by adding blue, white, black or a complementary colour to any hue on the wheel — no need to get your hands dirty to test it. On the back, a rotating pointer marks out the most-used harmony schemes directly: monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic and tetradic, plus a grey scale to compare the lightness of each colour.
The wheel also prints, right next to the colour ring, definitions for the concepts people mix up most when talking about colour: hue (how far a colour leans toward another), tone (a colour modified with black or grey), key colour (the dominant colour in a mix), neutral grey (a mix of black and white), and value or luminosity (how much light a colour reflects).
Frequently asked questions about the colour wheel
How do you use this colour wheel?
Turn the inner disc until the colour you want to mix lines up with the reference colour on the outer ring: the resulting mix appears automatically in a cut-out window on the disc. It's the same system used in The Color Wheel Company's professional colour wheels.
What's the difference between the two sides of the disc?
The front side mixes colours: turn the disc and the window shows what tone you get by adding blue, white, black or red to a base colour. The back side identifies colour harmonies through a rotating pointer that marks out monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic and tetradic combinations.
What colours does the colour wheel show?
All 12 colours of the traditional painter's wheel: 3 primary colours (red, yellow and blue), 3 secondary colours (green, orange and violet, made by mixing two primaries) and 6 tertiary colours, made by mixing a primary with its adjacent secondary.
Why does it use red, yellow and blue as primaries instead of magenta, yellow and cyan?
Because it follows the traditional painter's colour wheel (the RYB model), designed for mixing pigments the way you would on a palette, rather than the subtractive print model (CMY) or the additive screen model (RGB). It's the convention taught in fine art courses and also used by decorators and product designers.
What is it made of and what size is it?
It's a disc made from high-quality printed card, 23.5 cm in diameter and weighing around 100 g. It's manufactured and printed in the USA by The Color Wheel Company, under the MILAN brand for the Spanish and Portuguese markets.
What colour harmonies can I identify with this wheel?
Monochromatic (variations of a single colour), analogous (neighbouring colours on the wheel), complementary (opposite colours), split-complementary, triadic (three equidistant colours) and tetradic (four colours in complementary pairs). The back disc includes a rotating diagram to locate each one without any calculations.
Who is this colour wheel useful for?
For painters and fine art students who need to work out mixes and harmonies without trial and error on the canvas, as well as for graphic designers, decorators and photographers working with colour combinations in their projects.
What do hue, tone and value mean on the colour wheel?
Hue is how far a colour leans toward another; tone is a colour modified with black or grey; and value (or luminosity) is how light or dark a colour is — the amount of light it reflects. This wheel prints all three definitions alongside a reference grey scale.
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