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Color Theory SEI
Vocabulary Supplement to Color Theory Worksheet SEI
Term | Definition |
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Color Theory | is guidance on mixing colors and the visual effects of these combinations. |
Primary Colors | are the first, basic colors that cannot be made by mixing colors (red, yellow & blue). |
Secondary Colors | are colors made by mixing two primary colors (purple, green & orange). |
Tertiary Colors | are colors made by mixing a primary color and a secondary color(red-orange, yellow-orange, etc). |
Analogous Colors | are colors that are nest to each other on the color wheel (red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, etc). |
Color Wheel | is an arrangement of colors in a circle to show the relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary colors. |
Sir Isaac Newton | is an English physicist and mathematician who invented the color wheel |
Color Spectrum | is the group of colors a ray of light can be separated into; the colors of the rainbow |