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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What is a hue? | color |
What does intensity mean? | The strength or sharpness of a color due esp. to its degree of freedom from admixture with its complementary color. |
What are the three components of the color wheel? | primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors |
What are the primary colors? | red, blue, and yellow |
How do you make secondary colors? | by mixing together to of the primary colors |
What are the tertiary colors? | red-violet, red-orange, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-orange, and yellow-green |
How do you make primary colors? | you cannot mkae them. you don't mix other colors to get them |
How do you make tertiary/intermediate colors? | mix the primary colors and the secondary colors |
What does the word tint mean? | saturated color that is mixed with a pure white color |
What does the word shade mean? | saturated color that is mixed with pure black color |
What color is added to create a tint? | white |
What color is added to create a shade? | black |
What does a Monochromatic Harmony/Scheme mean? | tints and shades of only one color |
What does a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme mean? | two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
What does a Analogous Harmony/Scheme mean? | uses three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Monochromatic Harmony/Scheme? | 1 |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme? | 2 |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in an Analogous Harmony/Scheme? | 3 or more |
What colors are considered warm colors? | red, orange, and yellow |
What colors are considered cool colors? | violet, blue and green |
What colors are considered neutral colors? | brown, grey, tan, black, white |
What colors are on each side of the color Blue on the color wheel? | blue-violet and blue-green |
What colors are on each side of the color Yellow on the color wheel? | yellow-orange and yellow-green |
What colors are on each side of the color Red on the color wheel? | red-orange and red-violet |