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Color Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is color? | Color is an element of design. |
| How is color perceived? | Color occurs when light in different wavelengths strikes our eyes. Colors appear different depending on the lighting; incandescent, florescent, or natural sunlight. |
| What is hue? | Hue is the color itself. Each different hue is a different reflected wavelength of light. |
| What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, Yellow |
| What are the secondary colors? | Violet, Green, Orange |
| What are tertiary colors? | when you mix equal parts of one primary and one secondary color you achieve these colors |
| What are primary colors? | The three basic colors that are used to create all of the other colors are known as the primary colors. |
| What are secondary colors? | the three colors that are achieved from equal parts of two primary colors make up what we call the secondary colors. |
| What is a tint? | A tint is a saturated color that is mixed with pure white color |
| What is a shade? | A shade is a saturated color that is mixed with pure black color. |
| What are the warm colors? | Red, orange, yellow |
| What are the cool colors? | Blue, green, violet |
| What are the neutral colors? | black, grey, white, brown, and tan |
| What is a monochromatic color harmony and give one example? | A monochromatic color harmony is when you use different tints and shades of the same color. For example, baby blue, bright blue, and navy blue. |
| What is an analogous color harmony and give one example? | An analogous color harmony occurs when there are three or more colors that are right next to one another of the color wheel. For example, violet, red violet, and red. |
| What is complementary color harmony and give an example? | A complementary color harmony is when you use colors directly across from each other on the color wheel. For example, violet and yellow. |
| What is triadic color harmony and give an example? | When you use three equally distanced colors on the color wheel. For example, blue, red and, yellow. |
| What is split complementary and give an example? | Split complementary is when you uses any color and the two colors located next to that color's complement. For example, yellow, red-violet, and blue-violet. |
| What is neutral color harmony? | Any combination of blacks, greys, whites, browns, and tans |
| What is accented neutral? | Accented neutral-has a small splash of color |
| What is double complementary? | 2 complementary colors. For example, blue and orange and yellow and violet. |
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