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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you percieve white? | White light occurs when all the wavelengths are reflected back to your eye. |
How do you percieve black? | Black light occurs when no light is reflected to your eye. |
What is hue? | hue refers to the color |
What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, and Yellow |
What are the secondary colors? | Violet, Green, and Orange |
What are the tertiary colors? | Red-violet Blue-violet Blue-greenYellow-green Yellow-orangeRed-orange |
What is a saturated color? | the colors in the color wheel because there is no black or white |
What three groups make up the color wheel? | priamry, secondary, and tertiary colors |
What is a tint? | a saturated color that is mixed with white |
What is a shade? | a saturated color mixed with black |
What are three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | Red, Orange , and Yellow |
What are three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | Blue, Green, and Violet |
What are the five neutral colors? | Black, Grey, White, Brown and Tan |
What are the six types of color harmonies | MonochromaticAnalogousComplementaryTriadicSplit ComplementaryNeutral |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | when you use tints and shades of one color |
What is an analougus color harmony? | using three colors that are next to each other in the color wheel |
What is a complementary color harmony? | two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
What is a triadic color harmony? | three colors that are located within equal distance from each other |
What is a split complementary scheme? | using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement. |
What is a neutral color scheme? | Any combination of Blacks, Greys, Whites, Browns, & Tans |