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A smaller set of cards designed to work with a specific product line is the Lunatic Fringe Yarns Playing with Color Cards . They cost $37.50 on the Lunatic Fringe website or can be found at some weaving supply shops. butter yellow on left; information side of yellow card on right This is a set of 44 cards that match the 44 colors (including greys) in Lunatic Fringe's Tubular Spectrum™ line of yarns. The cards are a nice large size (3¼ by 5⅛ inches, or 83mm by 130mm) and come in a metal tin with a clear window. There's also a paper insert explaining how to use the tool. That same information can be found here on their website. The first thing you are likely to notice is some colors have the number 10 and some have the number 5. As the insert explains, Tubular Spectrum is based on the Munsell Color Wheel , which has 5 primary colors and 5 secondary colors, resulting in a 20-color wheel. A color with a "5" is one of the primaries or secon...

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...