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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What is a monochromatic color scheme? | A scheme that uses variations of one color. (Ex: blue- light blue, dark blue) |
What is an analogous color scheme? | A scheme that uses three colors that touch on the color wheel. |
What is an accented neutral color scheme? | A scheme that is all neutral with one color. (Ex: A room that's black, white, tan, and red) |
What color scheme is 2 colors opposite on the color wheel? | Complementary. (Ex: blue and orange) |
How many colors in a split complementary color scheme? | 3 |
What is color? | Color is an element of design. |
How is color perceived? | It's actually light in different wavelengths that strike our eyes. |
What are the different types of lights? | Natural, Fluorescent, and incandescent. |
What is a hue? | It refers to the color itself. |
What is each different hue? | A different reflected wavelength of light. |
What are the primary colors? | Three basic colors used to create all other colors on the color wheel (They are red, yellow, and blue. |
What are secondary colors? | Three colors that are made when mixing equal parts of two primary colors. (They are violet, green, and orange) |
What are tertiary colors? | They are intermediate colors made when mixing equal amounts of a primary and secondary color. (red violet, yellow green, blue green) |
How do you name a tertiary color? | List the primary color first and secondary color second. |
What makes up the color wheel? | Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. |
What are saturated colors? | Original, true colors with no white or black added to them. |
What is a tint? | A saturated color mixed with white. |
What is a shade? | A saturated color mixed with black. |
What are warm colors? | Red, orange, and yellow. |
What are cool colors? | Blue, green, and violet. |
What are neutral colors? | Black, grey, white, brown, and tan. |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | It is achieved by using tints and shades of one color. |
What is analogous color harmony? | This is done by using three or more colors that touch eachother on the color wheel. |
What is a complementary color harmony? | This is two colors across eachother on the color wheel. |
What is a triadic color harmony? | Three colors that are located within equal distance of eachother. |
What is a split complementary color harmony? | This is made by using a color and any other two colors that are next to that color's complement. |
What is a neutral color harmony? | Any mixture of blacks, greys, whites, tans, and browns. |