How to combine colors?

Is there an instrument you can use to guide you in the process of combining colours?

• No, there isn't.

• Yes, there is. But it is only understandable for advanced design students.

• Yes, it is called 'Colour wheel'.

• No, you need to have many colour palettes to understand it.

Who is the famous character that studied the refraction of light, where he discovered a spectrum of 7 colours, developing the color wheel, in 1666?

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Charles Dickens

• Voltaire

• Leonardo da Vinci

There are colours that complement one another and there are ones that cause disharmony.

• False

• True

Pay attention to the colour wheel. You can combine colours that are directly to each other.

• True

• False

According to the previous description, which of the following combinations matches the harmonic combination, by sequencial colours?

• Violet/Red

• Blue/Yellow

• Green/Blue-Green

• Orange-Yellow/Green

You want to combine your jeans and applying sequencial colours combinations.

Which of the following combinations fulfills this task?

• Dark yellow-green jeans and yellow blouse

• Light blue jeans and red blouse

• Violet-red jeans and dark orange blouse

• Dark green jeans and light red blouse

If I want to combine complementary colours, which option should I use?

(This combination is used by a very popular fundraising campaign in our country).

• Yellow and orange

• Red-orange and red

• Blue-green and violet

• Violet and yellow

When styling the format of your spreadsheet, it is very recomendable to have the biggest amount of bright colours, possible.

• False, it is highly recomended to use bright colours, only for specific data you need to highlight.

• True, the brighter, the easier to comprehend the information.

It is highly recomended to use dark colours, over light colours.

• False, dark colours require white letters, which is more difficult to read. You can use it, with moderation.

• True, you can have your entire spreadsheet in black, like in 'night mode', if you want to.

Which other consideration should I have when assigning colours to my spreadhseet?

For example, if I want to share the grades of my students in a parents' meeting.

(Multiple answers)

• You must consider your personality, if you are very sweet, you can use pastels and mostly a pink based palette. Use a different tone of pink for each grade.

• You must consider colours which already have a special meaning. For example red or yellow. These colours, most of the time indicate a warning, or a risk. If you use it for the grades, the parents may think there is a problem.

• You have to consider white and gray as your basic colours. Remember a spreadsheet is not designed for presenting information, like a slide presentation.

• You can add charts to your spreadsheet, to make easier to others to understand the data processed, but leave your data and information as neat as possible.

• Your borders can have different colours, and they don't have to combine with the colours used.