Analogous Colors Definition

Anаlogous Colors – mean two or more colors that are adjacent on the color wheel and often contain the same primary color. Analogous colors mean the color grouping has similarities.

These color scheme types have close relationships to one another. Here are a few examples of analogous color schemes: Yellow, yellow-green, green. In the most traditional sense, an analogous color palette is three colors. But it could go up to four or five colors.

Dеsigners can rely on an analogous palette to give their designs a temperature. A warm analogous color palette with four colors would be composed of red, red-orange, orange, and yellow-orange. A cool palette would include blue, blue-green, green, and yellow-green.