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The Essential Color Card Deck by Joen Wolfrom, comes from the same source as the Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool. It costs about $30. The sturdy box contains 200 cards each measuring 2½ inches by 4 inches (64mm by 101mm). In addition to the cards, the box contains a folded piece of glossy paper that shows all 200 colors and a color wheel. As with the Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool, the Essential Color Card Deck is based on a 24-color Ives CMYK wheel. Colors are numbered 1 through 24, starting with yellow and moving through green and blue around to purple, red, and orange. There are seven cards for each color: 1 pure hue 2 tints 2 tones 2 shades The back of each card shows the color wheel, the location of the hue, and the color schemes of two different split-complementary, complementary, triadic, and analogous. Each card has both a number for the hue and a letter, so you can put the cards back in order. The bottom has the RGB, CMYK, and Hex codes for ea...

This is a tool I've had for several years, long enough I don't recall where I bought it or when. It is the Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool by Joen Wolfrom, updated third edition (2010) from C&T Publishing. It currently sells for about $22 on the publisher's website, but it looks like Amazon and even WalMart carry it? tool fanned out; back of golden yellow; front of yellow This has long been my go-to color tool for several reasons. It is based on the printer's primaries of cyan, magenta, and yellow (CMYK). It uses a 24-color wheel. Each card shows complementary, analogous, two versions of split-complementary, and triadic. The tool has 6 cards at the beginning to provide an overview of color theory and how to use the tool. There's a color wheel with all 24 colors numbered, beginning with yellow as #1 and working through greens to blues, through purples to...