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Color terms
Question | Answer |
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What is color | Color is an element of design |
How is color perceived | Light in different wavelengths strike our eyes |
What are the different types of lights | Natural, fluorescent, and incandescent |
What is a hue | Refers to the color itself |
What is each different hue | A reflected wavelength of light |
White light occurs when | When wavelength are reflected back to your eyes |
Black lights occur when | No light is reflected to your eye |
Definition of primary colors | Three basic colors that are used to create all the other colors |
What are the primary colors | Red, blue, yellow |
Definition of secondary colors | Three colors that are achived from equal parts of to primary colors |
What are the secondary color | Orange, violet, green |
Tertiary | When you mix equal parts of one primary color and one secondary color |
What is a tint | A saturated color that is mixed with pure white |
What is a shade | A saturated color that is mixed with pure black |
Warm colors | Red, orange, yellow |
Cool colors | Blue, green, violet |
Neutral colors | Black, white, tan, grey, brown |
What are the color harmonies | Monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, split complementary, neutral |
Monochromatic | Created by using tints and shades of only one color |
Analogous | Done by using three or more colors next to each other on the color wheel |
Complementary color | Two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
Triadic | Three color that are located within equal distance of each other |
Split complementary | This is created by using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement |