Color harmony experiment
Posted by Dan on Aug 23rd, 2009
2009
Aug 23

The colors in the image on the left are from a pentad color harmony; the colors are 72 degrees apart on the color wheel like the points of a pentagon inscribed in a circle. Actually, I just made that up in analogy to the hexad harmony I read about in a book on color theory. The hexad harmony has 6 colors spaced 60 degrees apart, and since I only have 5 colors, why not invent the pentad?
The colors on the right are from a hexad harmony, but a color (cyan) is missing. I call it hexad minus one. The conventional wisdom from Pythagorean Tarot is:
This is what happens when I make something up and google it.