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WorksheetsHow to combine colors?
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
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.
