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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you percieve white? | Color occurs when light in different avelengths strikes our eye. |
How do you percieve black? | Objects have no color of their own, only the ability to reflect a certain wavelength of light back to our eyes |
What is hue? | Hue refers to the color itself. |
What are the primary colors? | The primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. |
What are the secondary colors? | The secondary colors are violet, green,and orange. |
What are the tertiary colors? | The tertiary colors are Red-violet, Blue-violet, Blue-green, Yellow-green, Yellow-orange, and Red-orange. |
What is a saturated color? | A saturated color is the colors used in the color wheel because there is no white or black in them. |
What three groups make up the color wheel? | The primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors make up the color wheel. |
What is a tint? | A tint is a saturated color that is mixed with pure white color. |
What is a shade? | A shade is a saturated color that is mixed with pure black color. |
What are three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | The warm colors are red, orange, and yellow. |
What are three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | The cool colors are blue, green, and violet. |
What are the five neutral colors? | The neutral colors are black, grey, white, brown, and tan. |
What are the six types of color harmonies? | The six types of color harmonies are monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, split complementary, neutral. |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | Monochromatic color harmonies use tints and shades of only one color. |
What is an analougus color harmony? | Analougus color harmonies use three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. |
What is a complementary color harmony? | Complementary color harmonies use two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. |
What is a triadic color harmony? | Triadic color harmonies use three colors that are located within equal distance of each other. |
What is a split complementary scheme? | Split complementary color harmonies use any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement. |
What is a neutral color scheme? | A neutral color scheme is any combination of blacks, greys, whites, browns, & tans. |