. Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country . as red with anger and having the blues—Compare this to thecalm mood of being in a brown study. Why is brown calm? Because it is amixture of red, yellow and blue, in which each color subdues the intensity of theothers. In other words, brown is a tone, and any other color which contains thethree primary colors is a tone, in whatever proportions mixed. Equal intensitiesof red, yellow and blue make a neutral grey; more yellow or red makes warm grey,tans and bro
. Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country . as red with anger and having the blues—Compare this to thecalm mood of being in a brown study. Why is brown calm? Because it is amixture of red, yellow and blue, in which each color subdues the intensity of theothers. In other words, brown is a tone, and any other color which contains thethree primary colors is a tone, in whatever proportions mixed. Equal intensitiesof red, yellow and blue make a neutral grey; more yellow or red makes warm grey,tans and browns, more blue makes cold greys, more yellow and blue make green-greys. In conmion parlance then, tones are softened colors. All colors which canbe accurately descril)ed by the suffix ish, as greenish-grey, j^ellowish-green,bluish-grey, reddish-brown, are tones and safe to use on large surfaces. And thosecolors or tones harmonize which have an abundance of the same primary color intheir make-up. Yor example, green walls which are to harmonize with goldenbrown woodwork, nuist show much yellow, as golden brown is largely yellow; 34. A IJVING ROOM Finished in Brothers Golden Oak Stain & Varnisli ruhbed, and the «all^ decorated wiDi Lowe Brothers ^^■llotonehi addition to its artistic colors, this [jroduet is washatih and particLdarl> rlnrable. -flat oil colors.
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