Adjacent colors harmonize well because they are so similar. When you pick the dominant color, the Color Wheel automatically displays four adjacent colors (two from each side of the chosen color) that you can use to enrich the scheme. It's a good idea to avoid mixing warm and cool colors, so if the suggested adjacent colors are reddish (warm) and bluish (cool) color pairs, only use one pair.
Complementary color is the color opposite from the one you picked. It should harmonize well with the chosen color and, when used together, both colors will seem brighter and more intense.
Hue is another term for color.
Saturation means the intensity of a color (or hue). In the example, the saturation ranges in intensity from very light red to very dark.
Triadic colors are three colors which are equally distant on the color wheel. When you pick the dominant color, the Color Wheel automatically displays the other two triadic colors that you can use to create a color scheme.
Warm colors are reds, yellows, oranges, and any other colors that are mostly reddish or yellowish. Warm colors suggest the sun, emotion, energy, and heat, and give the illusion of advancing toward the viewer.
Web-safe colors are supposed to be the 216 colors (also called Netscape colors) that are most likely to be compatible with web browsers across different computing platforms (Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.). In fact, though, since Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Windows couldn't display the colors #3300FF, #00FF33, #0033FF, and #33FF00 properly, there are really only 212 web-safe colors. Which is why the TopTechWriter color wheels contain a total of 212 colors.
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