A tribute to the founder of the modern color System.
Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer and teacher and in many ways the theorist and originator behind modern color definition.
With his color wheel, he succeeded in depicting the connections between the colors in an easily understandable way by defining three primary colors: Red, Yellow and Blue.
These colors cannot be mixed from any other colors. However, all other colors can be mixed from the three primary colors. When the two primary colors are mixed together in equal parts, secondary colors are created, Green (Yellow + Blue), Violet (Red + Blue), Orange (Yellow + Red). The opposite colors on the wheel are called the contrast colours, so yellow is the opposite of purple, meaning that when the colours are next to each other they...
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