Color coding

Light green:  consonant, mellow, or lush/Rich sound, with typically a minor quality

Light blue: Jazzy, complex, sophisticated

Purple: Suspended and/or dominant chord, tense/open sounding quality

Red: Dissonant

Grey: Neutral or ambiguous, mixed sound

Yellow: Basic major chord, open and intense/lively/energetic

Light orange: open and pleasing sound, with a distinct major quality

Please note M stands for major in all cases, so EM13 for example wouid be a Emaj13 chord

Note: for some chords there are more variants but the most resonant one is selected in the chart (or put at the top if they sound slightly different)

Related chords and chords with similar tonality are placed together

Intervals:

You can use the top 2 strings for the chords if you want to add more complexity/tension to the chord

F7 Shape, can be moved up the fretboard to positions (1st/E String) 1(as per the image), 3, 5. 6, 8, 10, 12 to create a beautiful sounding harmony/tension

F#maj7 shape

Em9 shape

Fmaj, can be moved up the fretboard to positions 1, 3, 5, 6 (dissonant), 7 (tense), 8, 9 (tense), 10, 12 (jazzy)

G#min7

E6sus2 shape

FM7sus2, can be moved up the fretboard to positions 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 to create a tense, major harmony or to build tension

Gmaj

G+add5

Emadd9/Em7add9

B7sus4#5

this list does not include Augmented and Diminished chords

Chord dictionary