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Color- O. Dunlevy
Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What is color? | An element od design. |
How is color perceived? | Colors appear different depending on whether you view them under incandescent, florescent or natural sunlight. |
What are the 3 types of light? | Icandesent light, Fluorescent light, & natural light. |
What is hue? | Hue refers to the color itself |
What are the primary colors? | The 3 basic colors used to create all the others- Red, Yellow, Blue. |
What are the secondary colors? | The three colors that are achieved from equal parts of two primary colors- Violet, Green, Orange. |
What are the Tertiary colors? | When you mix equal parts of one primary and one secondary color-Red-violet Blue-violet Blue-green Yellow-green Yellow-orange Red-orange. |
What makes up the color wheel? | All of these elements; primary, secondary, and tertiary make up what we call the color wheel. |
What is a tint and a shade? | A tint is a saturated color that is mixed with pure white color.-white. A shade is a saturated color that is mixed with pure black color.-black. |
What are the warm and cool colors? | Warm Colors:Red, Orange, & Yellow Cool Colors:Blue, Green, & Violet. |
What are the neutral colors? | Black, Grey, White, Brown, & Tan |
What are color harmonies? | Monochromatic Analogous Complementary Triadic Split Complementary Neutral. |
What is a monochramtic color harmony? | They are achieved by using tints and shades of only one color ex-navy/bright blue/cranberry. |
Monochromatic Color Harmony? | They are achieved by using tints and shades of only one color. |
Analogous Color Harmony? | Are done by using three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. |
Complementary Color Harmony? | Two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. |
Triadic Color Harmony? | Three colors that are located within equal distance of each other. |
Split Complementary Harmony? | This is created by using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement. |
Neutral Color Harmony? | Any combination of Blacks, Greys, Whites, Browns, & Tans. |