color scheme

1. 1.

   a planned combination of colors

   “the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator”

   Synonymscolour scheme

   Broadercombination

Questions about color scheme

What does color scheme mean?

color scheme means "a planned combination of colors".

What is another word for color scheme?

Close synonyms include colour scheme. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color scheme a common word?

color scheme is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.