A monochrome scheme is a design using one colour and its shades only. A monochrome scheme in grey, stick to a monochrome scheme.
It is the hardest scheme to get wrong and the easiest to make dull, so texture does the work colour would have done. The word means one colour, and black and white counts as one.
1nounmonochrome schemeA design using one colour and its shades only.
“The whole flat was done in a monochrome scheme of greys.”
monochrome scheme is a scheme.
Practised in Colours & Patterns