Moriarty Colour Wheel

The Moriarty Colour Wheel creates a completely new way of thinking about colour mixing and complementary colours. Over each wheel is placed a transparent plastic disc on which there is a curved grid that delivers the artist countless combinations for colour mixing. The resulting colours will be beautiful and harmonious.

The Moriarty Colour Wheel offers groundbreaking possibilities for artists and painters, being uniquely able to deal with both RGB and CMY formats (no black). It is the world's leading colour wheel design, having already won an award for the best new product at the Frankfurt Art Fair in 2018.

MATCH COLOUR BY:

• hue – position around colour wheels (top has 36 hues; lower has 18 hues)
• purity-saturation – pure to grey (top)
• tone-value – light to dark, pure hues with tone scale between (lower)
• pigment – by code (lower)

• move guide to place your colour along a pathway
• mix hues at both ends to create it
• many pathways will cover a colour
• choose pigments or use colours you have – no waste
• lighten with white & darken with complementary – use  to  pathway
• mix pure colours within sections between Cyan, Magenta & Yellow using  to  pathway

CREATE YOUR PERFECT COLOUR PALETTE:

• choose the hue that you want to dominate

• choose a hue to support your colour

• move guide to place these colours on a pathway

• use pathway colours to create colour combinations, as these share hues along that path, balancing similarity and difference

• use colours within  to  pathway to centre of wheel, as these will also harmonise beautifully, creating coloured light

• use complementary colours in equal proportions to create a neutral palette

COMPLEMENTARY

• Hues are correctly placed as complementaries (opposite) on the colour wheel and will mix black; use  to  pathway
• Moriarty Colour Wheel is printed without adding black (K)

PRIMARY COLOURS

• Light: Red, Blue & Green (RGB)

• Pigment: Cyan, Magenta & Yellow (CMY). Add red, green & ultramarine blue pigments plus titanium white for better colour mixing (see pigment codes)