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Hong 8
Color Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is color? | color is an element of design |
| How is color perceived? | color occurs when light in different wavelengths strike our eyes |
| What are the three forms of light? | incandescent light, fluorescent light, and natural light |
| What is hue? | hue refers to the color itself |
| What three components is the color wheel made up of? | primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors make up the color wheel |
| What are primary colors? | the three basic colors that are used to create al of the other colors, you can't achieve these colors by mixing any other colors together |
| What are the three primary colors? | red, yellow, and blue |
| What are secondary colors? | colors that are achieved from mixing equal parts of 2 primary colors |
| What are the three secondary colors? | violet, green, and orange |
| What are tertiary colors? | colors that are achieved from mixing equal parts of a primary and secondary color |
| What are examples of tertiary colors? | red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green. yellow-orange, red-orange |
| What are colors used in the color wheel called? | saturated colors, there is no white or black in them |
| What is a tint? | a saturated color that is mixed with pure black |
| What is a shade? | a saturated color that is mixed with pure white |
| What are the warm colors? | red, orange, yellow |
| What are the cool colors? | blue, green, and violet |
| What are the neutral colors? | black, gray, white, tan, brown |
| What are the color harmonies? | monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, split complementary, neutral, accented neutral, double complementary |
| What is the monochromatic color harmony? | tints and shades of only one color |
| What is the analogous color harmony? | three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel |
| What is the complementary color harmony? | two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
| What is the triadic color harmony? | three colors that are located within equal distance of each other |
| What is a split complementary color harmony? | any color and then two colors located next to that color's complement |
| What is a double complementary color harmony? | 2 sets of complements |
| What is a neutral color harmony? | any combination of neutral colors |
| What is an accented neutral color harmony? | neutral colors with one color as an accent |
| What is the value of a color? | the lightness or darkness of a color |
| What is the intensity of a color? | the brightness or dullness of a color |
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