# Learn How Color Theory Can Push Your Creativity to the Next Level (via My Modern Met)

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**Category:** Color
**Tags:** color, colortheory
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/learn-how-color-theory-can-push-your-creativity-to-the-next-level-via-my-modern-met/843 "2019-03-05T14:19:05Z")
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### Author: ![AWaichulis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.smartermarx.com/awaichulis/32/2859_2.png) [@AWaichulis](https://www.smartermarx.com/u/AWaichulis)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/learn-how-color-theory-can-push-your-creativity-to-the-next-level-via-my-modern-met/843/1 "2019-03-05T14:19:05Z")

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Here is a fairly straightforward walkthrough of some of the traditional ideas regarding color:

FULL ARTICLE (My Modern Met):

> **[Learn How Color Theory Can Push Your Creativity to the Next Level](https://mymodernmet.com/basic-color-theory/)**
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> This guide to basic color theory explores the history of color theory, primary colors, the color wheel, and color harmony.

"_Colors are one of the first things we learn in school. Understanding the basic primary colors and how they blend is an activity found in most elementary school classrooms, but that’s just one piece of a much larger field known as **color theory**._

_Used by painters, graphic designers, interior decorators, and anyone working in visual culture, color theory is an essential part of any creative’s toolkit. By understanding the **principles of color** and the science behind how we perceive different hues, creatives are able to mix, match, and blend a wide range of colors to please the eye._" -Jessica Stewart

 ![Goethe-color-wheel-1809-e1537522283246](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/smartmarx/original/2X/5/5cb39fefed35663fa1ef52baa8d02731daf37d65.jpeg)  
Color wheel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1809. (Photo: [Public domain], [via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe,_Farbenkreis_zur_Symbolisierung_des_menschlichen_Geistes-_und_Seelenlebens,_1809.jpg)