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Zukowski 1
Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you precieve white? | White light occurs when all the wavelengths are reflected back to your eye. |
How do you precieve black? | Black light occurs when no light is reflected to your eye. |
What is hue? | Hue refers to colors itself. |
What are the primary colors? | Red, yellow, and blue. |
What are the secondary colors? | Violet, green and orange. |
What are the tertiary colors? | Red-violet Blue-violet, Blue-green, Yellow-green, Yellow-orange, and Red-orange. |
What is a saturated color? | A color that has no white or black in them. |
What three groups make up the color wheel? | Primary, secondary, and teritary. |
What is tint? | A color mixed w/pure white. |
What is shade? | A color mixed w/pure black. |
What three colors are considered to be warm colors? | Red, orange and yellow |
What three colors are considered to be cold 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? | Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Triadic, Split Complementary, and Neutral |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | Using tints and shades of one color. |
What is an analougus color harmony? | Using three or more colors that are next to each other on 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 of each other. |
What is a split complementary scheme? | Uing 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. |