It’s much less often that you would choose a chromatic colour for your stone, carpet, tile or a countertop rather than a neutral colour or white. When you’re building or renovating your home, you’ll most often find yourself coordinating neutral colours and whites in hard finishes for the interior and exterior of your house. Not only are neutral colours deceptively difficult to get right because of their bossy nature and subtle differences, they are also the category of colours you’ll need to choose the most often! While choosing a chromatic colour has its own set of guidelines (as do whites), by far the trickiest colours to choose are neutrals and you need all the help you can get. If you’ve found that it’s generally much easier to choose a chromatic colour in some version of red, yellow, green, blue or violet, you’re right. This colour wheel sets you up for success in the world of neutral colours.
The neutrals on the right side of the wheel are warmer, while the neutrals on the left side of the wheel are cooler.ĭeveloping an eye to distinguish cooler colours versus warmer ones is an important part of understanding how to specify colours. The benefit of following this traditional structure is you can easily see cooler neutrals as distinct from warmer neutrals. I’ve followed the basic structure of a standard primary colour wheel in how I organized the placement of these nine useful neutrals.
Simply compare a paint chip, hard finish, fabric or anything against each of the nine neutral colours on the colour wheel and you can easily see which colour it is.
This eliminates any guesswork when you want to correctly identify the neutral colour of anything and everything. This wheel serves as a blueprint for my complete set of the nine useful neutral undertones with an illustration* of what each one looks like and how one neutral compares to the others.Įach neutral colour is already identified for you in a lighter and mid-tone version.
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