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Intro Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What are the elements of design? | Line, form, texture, and color. |
What are the principles of design? | Balance, proportion and scale, emphasis, rhythm, and harmony. |
What is the principle repetition? | The form of repeating a design over and over again in a outfit, like a dress or top. |
How does texture affect color? | It can either reflect more light or absorb more light. In other words, smooth surfaces makes the wearer look heavier, and dull surfaces makes the wearer look thinner. |
What type of textures increase a persons body size? | Smooth surfaces that reflect light. |
What do curved lines suggest? | Gentle, romantic, fragile, soft, casual, feminine, graceful, and sensual. |
What do diagonal lines suggest? | Active, movement, instability excitement, interesting, dramatic, restless, sophisticated, in motion, and vitality. |
What are the three types of rhythm? | Repetition, radiation, and gradation. |
What is asymmetrical balance? Example? | Asymmetrical balance is when the design is balanced, but each side is different in some way. Example would be if one side of a dress has a different design and colors than the other side. |
What is the difference between horizontal and vertical lines? | Vertical lines gives off an illusion of making the wearer look longer, while horizontal lines makes the wearer look shorter and heavier. |
What does harmony mean, how is it achieved? | Harmony is the goal of design. All parts look as if they belong together. The elements of design and principles of design are working together. |
What are the two things texture involves? | Tactile and visual. |
What are the four types of line? | Vertical, curved, diagonal, and Horizontal. |
What is proportion? | The parts of a design are arranged so they achieve a feeling of rest and equilibrium, (balance). |
What is symmetrical balance? Example? | Both sides are exact, a mirror image of each other. |
What is emphasis? What is another name for it? | The focal point of fashion created by the use of line, shape, color, texture, and/or pattern. Another name for it is, Focal Point. |
What is another name for symmetrical balance? | Formal Balance |
What is another name for asymmetrical balance? | Informal Balance |
What is the difference between gradation and radiation? | Radiation is the lightening of the color from the center point coming outward. Gradation is the change of one tint or shade of a color to another. |
If the elements of design are considered the "tools", what are the principles of design considered? | The principle of design would be considered as the ideas, if the elements of designs were to be considered as the "tools". |