It can be quite challenging to decide on which colours will work well together. To make things easier, there are scientific colour combinations that will work together to create contrast and/or harmony.


The adjacent colour scheme is any two to three colours beside each other on the colour wheel. Always choose one hue as the dominant colour and use the others as accents. A safe adjacent colour ratio is 60-30-10.


References: The Color Wheel Company. (2006). The Gardener’s Color Wheel – A Guide to Using Color in the Garden (First Edition). Philomath, Oregon.

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