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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you percieve white? | white light is percieved when all the wavelengths are reflected back to your eye |
How do you percieve black? | black light is percieved when no light is reflected to your eyes |
What Is Hue? | color |
What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, Yellow |
What are the secondary colors? | Violet (red+blue), Green (blue+yellow), Orange (red+yellow) |
What are the tertiary colors? | Red-violet, Blue-Violet, Blue-green, Yellow-green, Yellow-orange, Red-orange |
What is a saturated color? | color without white and black used on the color wheel |
What are the three groups that make up the color wheel? | primary, secondary and tertiary colors |
What is a tint? | saturated color mixed with white |
What is a shade? | saturated color mixed with black |
What are the three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | Red, Orange and Yellow |
What are the three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | Blue, Green and Violet |
What are five neutral colors? | Black, Grey, White, Brown and Tan |
What are the six color harmonies? | Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Triadic, Split Complementary, Neutral |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | using tints or shades of one color |
What is an analogous 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 directly across 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? | using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complementary |
What is a neutral color scheme? | any color combinations of Blacks, Greys, Whites, Browns and Tans |