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color terms
Question | Answer |
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what is a hue? | the name given to a color |
What does intensity mean? | the brightness or dullness of a color |
What are the three components of the color wheel? | blue red yellow |
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 |
How do you make primary colors? | blue red yellow |
How do you make secondary colors? | you make them by mixing primary colors |
How do you make tertiary/intermediate colors? | by mixing primary and secondary colors |
What does the word tint mean? | when you make something lighter |
What does the word shade mean? | when you make something darker |
What color is added to create a tint? | white |
What color is added to craete a shade? | black |
What does a Monochromatic Harmony/Scheme mean? | one hue with different tints and shades |
What does a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme mean? | 2 colors that are direclty across from each other on the color wheel |
What does a Analogous Harmony/Scheme mean? | 3 or more colors next to each other on the color wheel |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Monochromatic Harmony/Scheme? | one |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme? | two |
How many colors fro the color wheel are represented in an Analogous Harmony/Scheme? | 3 or more |
What colors are considered warm colors? | ornage, yellow, red |
What colors are considered cool colors? | green, blue, violet |
What colors are considered neutral colors? | tans, browns, whites |
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-green, yellow-orange |
What colors are on each side of the color Red on the color wheel? | red-orange, red-violet |