Color Wheel Wednesday

A short-form series on historical and contemporary color wheels, and why they were built. Each episode discusses what problem a color wheel (or wheels) tried to solve, who made it, and what it gets right or wrong. We end up covering a lot of color theory ground in the process! New episodes every Wednesday.

Curated by: Color Nerd (24 videos)

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Currently Playing: The Ostwald Color Wheel (1916)

Ostwald's color system, with its unique 24-hue color wheel, was very popular in the 1930s and 1940s. so what happened? this is episode 1 of Color Wheel Wednesday... a new thing I'm trying. What color wheel should I talk about next? #colortheory #artteacher #colorwheel

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Tracks in this Playlist

• The Ostwald Color Wheel (1916)
• A Web-Safe Color Wheel (ca. 2000)
• The Cheskin Color Wheel (1953)
• Miskella's Color Wheels (1928)
• This 1931 Color Wheel Never Had a Chance
• How Advanced Was This 1940s Color Wheel?
• The Color Wheel That Couldn't Wait
• This Guy Rebuilt the RGB Color Wheel From Scratch
• The Only Color Wheel I Use
• Why this Color Wheel has Five Primary Colors
• The Fascinating Color Wheel of Christine Holbrook
• Johannes Itten ripped off this color wheel
• Color Wheel? Nah. Color Pentagon!
• Which Color Wheel is Right for Quilters?
• It Took 48 Printing Passes to Make This Color Wheel. Was It Worth It?
• Where "Analogous Colors" Actually Came From (1926 French Color Wheel)
• What Japan Did With Munsell That the West Didn't
• All the Cool Kids 𝘚𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘛 Their Color Wheels
• Why I love Frans Gerritsen's interactive color wheel
• The Real Reason Your Palette Has Two of Every Color
• The Case Against Color Bias
• A Pop-Up Color Model from Japan: PCCS Handy Color 3D Live!
• Rudolph Schaeffer's Color Wheel Explained
• LEGO Color Wheels (And Why I Built a Grid Instead)