This is a color scheme that uses three colors. One color is chosen first and then the colors on either side of its complementary color ​are included. Less dramatic than the complementary color scheme, the split-complementary is an easy color scheme to create and live with. This has two colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel, and one directly across. Neutral colors are an elegant choice for monochromatic color schemes. To find a monochromatic color scheme on the color wheel, look at one color, like red, and look at the other tints, tones, and shades within that same angle of the wheel.