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Color Terms

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What is color?   an element of design  
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How is color perceived?   it occurs when light in diff. wave lengths hits our eyes  
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What are the three kinds of light?   incandescent, fluorescent, and natural  
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What are the three kinds of colors?   primary, secondary, and tertiary  
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what are the primary colors?   red, blue, and yellow  
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what are the secondary colors?   colors mixed by two primary colors: violet, green, and orange  
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What are the tertiary colors?   when you mix one primary and one secondary: blue-violet, red-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange  
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What is a hue?   a colorex. green or red  
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what is a tint?   a sarurated color mixed with a white color (the more white the lighter it gets)  
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What is a shade?   a saturated color mixed with black (the more black the darker it gets)  
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What are some warm colors?   red, orange, and yellow  
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what are some cool colors?   blue, green, and violet  
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what are some neutral colors?   black, grey, white, brown, and tan  
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What are some color harmonies?   monochromatic, analogous, complementary, tradic, split complementary, neutral  
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WHat is Monochromatic color harmony? and give an example   i achieved by using tints and shades of one color ex. navy blue, bright blue, and baby blue in a room  
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WHat is Analogous color harmony? and give an example   achieved by using 3 or more colors next to each other on color wheel ex. blue, blue-green, green  
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What is Complementary color harmony? and give an example   two colors that are directly across from each other ex. yellow and violet  
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What is Triadic color harmony? an give an example   three colors that are within an equal distance of each other ex. red, blue, and yellow  
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what is Split complementary harmony? and give an example   created by using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement ex. yellow, red violet, blue violet  
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What is Neutral color harmony?   any como of blacks, greys, whites, browns, and tans  
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How is White Percieved?   When wavelengths hit your eye  
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How is black perceived   when no wavelengths hit your eyes  
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What is a saturated color?   the color with nothing added  
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