€ 23.99
Based in colour science: The traditional Colour Wheel is based on a historic theory that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colours. It therefore usually includes twelve hues — three primaries, three secondaries, and six tertiaries. In contrast, the twenty hues of the Colour Fidget are based on the perception-based systems, like the Munsell system, used by colour scientists, realist painters and illustrators. More hues also means more nuanced colour combinations to choose from!
A new way to think about colour harmony: Traditional colour wheels display hue relationships — complementary, analogous, triadic, and so on. The research of Ellen Divers, Shigenobu Kobayashi, and others has shown that colour palettes evoke an emotional response through their character, not through specific hue combinations. The Colour Fidget therefore includes three levels of vividness, to show different characters of each hue.
Traditional Colour Wheels help you identify hue relationships, but they don’t effectively isolate sets of colours so you can judge how they look together. Limiting the range, or gamut, of available colours is a design method called gamut masking. By spinning the double mask design of the Colour Fidget, you can visualize and explore combinations of hues with varying limits of vividness.
The Colour Fidget’s two-inch diameter makes it a show-stopper! It also makes it large enough to clearly “read” different colour combinations that show through the gamut masks. The size is exactly the same for the enamel pin, magnet or keychain.