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  Course: Design & Decoration
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Basic Color Theory Make your LEGO models more exciting with color! You can use color to personalize your LEGO models. Understanding the principles of color and experimenting with color combinations will help you design more interesting models.  
To be a great LEGO Designer you need to understand how color works. After all, how lovely would a grey rose be? What if the evil Ogel made his undersea mutants out of pink bricks, instead of black and red? Not so scary now, right? Color is expressive and emotional. That's why there are sayings like "I've got the blues" to describe feeling sad, or "I'm seeing red" to describe feeling anger.
Color is a personal expression, and you should always feel free to make your LEGO models any color you'd like. If you want to make a green dog and a purple cow, you can, and you should. It's up to you and your imagination! The information you are about to learn is just a guide -- there are no rules about color that can't be broken! As the (color) wheel turns Let's start with one very important color principle: you can mix different colors together to make new ones. Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors, the basic source of all other colors. Mixing red and yellow makes orange, combining yellow and blue creates green, and blending red and blue makes purple. The three new colors -- orange, green and purple -- are called secondary colors. This principle is illustrated by the color wheel. You will notice that any two primary colors (red, yellow, blue) on the color wheel are separated by their corresponding secondary colors (orange, purple, and green). For example, green appears between blue and yellow. The color wheel describes the relationships between colors in other ways too. Any two colors which appear directly opposite each other on the color wheel (such as red and green) are called complementary colors. Despite their harmonious sounding name, complementary colors are actually color opposites, and contrast with each other in an extreme way. Meanwhile, colors which appear beside each other on a color wheel, and thereby share a common color, are called analogous colors (which means "related" colors). For example, yellow and orange both share the color yellow; therefore yellow and orange are analogous colors. You can experiment with complementary colors and analogous colors in your LEGO model to make an appealing color combination. Lighten up! White is the combination of all colors, while black is the absence of color. Black, white and all the shades of grays in between are called achromatic colors. You can control the level of darkness, or shade, of a color by mixing it with black. Meanwhile, you can control the lightness, or tint, of a color by mixing it with white. For example, pink is actually a lighter tint of red, created by adding white to red. A pure color, also called hue, is one without any achromatic color. Pure color is very vibrant, like the red color of a fire engine!
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