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Mendenhall 7/8
Color terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how do you percieve white? | when all the wavelengths are reflected back to your eye |
| how do you percieve black? | when no light is reflected to your eye |
| what is hue? | colr itself |
| what are the primary colors? | red, blue, yellow |
| what are the secondary colors? | violet, green, orange |
| what are the tertiary colors? | red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange |
| what is a saturated color? | the colors in the color wheel, becasue there is no white or black in them |
| what three groups make the color wheel? | primary, secondary, teritary |
| what is a tint? | a saturated color that is mixed with a pure white color |
| what is a shade? | a saturated color that is mixed with pure black color |
| what are three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | red, orange, yellow |
| what are three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | blue, green, violet |
| what are five nuetral colors? | black, grey, white, brown, tan |
| what are the six types of color harmonies? | monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, tradic, split complementary, neutral |
| what is a monochromatic color harmony? | using tints and shades of only one color (navy blue, bright blue, baby blue) |
| what is an analougus color harmony? | using three or more colors that are next to eachother on the color wheel (red, red-violet, violet) |
| what is a complementary color harmony? | two colors that are directly across from eacother on the color wheel (green, red) |
| what is a tradic color harmony? | three colors tht are located within equal distance of eachother (red, blue, yellow) |
| what is a split complementary scheme? | using any color and the two colors located next to that colors compliment (yellow, red-violet, blue-violet) |
| what is a nuetral color scheme? | any combination of blacks, greys, whites, browns, tans |
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