While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes. That’s where Part 3 comes in. Here I’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. I’ll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create
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