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D04 COLOR
Term | Definition |
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COLOR WHEEL | a circular chart that shows a color's relationship to other colors |
PRIMARY COLORS | The three basic pigment colors - red, yellow, blue - from which all other colors can be produced. |
SECONDARY COLORS | colors formed by mixing the primary colors; producing green, orange and purple |
TERTIARY COLORS | colors formed by mixing equal parts of a primary and a secondary color. Also called intermediate colors. |
COOL COLORS | restful colors like purple, blue and green that tend to recede from the viewer |
WARM COLORS | stimulating colors like reds, oranges, and yellows that tend to advance toward the viewer |
NEUTRAL COLORS | colors such as black, white, gray, brown and beige sometimes called "earth tones" |
COMPLEMENTARY COLOR | Colors that are opposite on the color wheel like red and green; they intensify each other with high contrast |
SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY | a variation of complementary color that uses the two colors adjacent to its complement |
ANALOGOUS COLORS | Any two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are closely related |
MONOCHROMATIC COLORS | A single color hue in varying tints and shades |
ACHROMATIC | colors having no chroma - black, white and grays |
HUE | The name of any color as found in its pure state in the spectrum or rainbow. |
SATURATION | The purity of a color; its intensity. |
VALUE | Relative lightness or darkness with or without the presence of hue. |
INTENSITY | The strength or purity of a color; also referred to as saturation. |
TINT | A color with white added to make it lighter. |
SHADE | A color with black added to make it darker. |
TONE | A color with grey added to reduce its saturation or intensity |
RGB | Additive colors primaries; projected red, green and blue light combine to produce the full spectrum of colors. |
CMYK | Subtractive primaries; a 4-color process printing using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black combined to reproduce full color. |
ADDITIVE COLOR | Color reproduction model usually uses red, green and blue LIGHT to produce the other colors |
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR | Color reproduction model by mixing of paints, dyes, inks, and natural colorants to create a full range of colors. |
SPOT COLOR | In offset printing, any color generated by an ink (pure or mixed) that is printed using a single run. |
PROCESS COLOR | a method of producing full color printing by separating an image into four different colors; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) which are overlaid during printing. |
PMS | Pantone Matching System; a widely used method of specifying spot color by means of numbered swatches |