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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What are the primary colors? | red, blue, yellow |
What is color? | different reflections of light |
3 forms of light? | incandescent, halogen, flourescent |
What is hue? | each different hue is a different wavelength of light |
What is the color wheel? | most important tool used when designing, shows primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors |
What are the secondary colors? | violet, green, organge |
What are the tertiary colors? | red violet, blue violet, blue green, yellow green, yellow orange, red orange |
What does saturated mean? | There is no black or white in any of the colors |
Tints | A saturated color mixed with pure white color |
Shades | A saturated color with black added to darken it |
Warm colors | red, orange, yellow |
Cool colors | blue, green, violet |
Neutral colors | black, gray, white, brown, tan |
Color harmonies | monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triad, split-complementary neutral, accented neutral |
Monochromatic | they are achieved by using tints and shades of only one color |
Analogous | using 3 or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel |
Complementary | 2 colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
Triad | 3 colors located equidistant on the color wheel |
Split-complementary | using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complementary |
Neutral | any combo of all neutral colors |
Accented neutral | neutral scheme with one color |
Double complementary | two opposite colors |