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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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what are the primary colors? | red, yellow, blue. |
what is color? | an element of design. |
how is color perceived? | color occurs when light in different wavelenghts hits our eyes. the lighting of the room is also important. |
what is hue? | hue is the actual color. |
how do white and black lights occur? | white occurs when ALL the wavelenghts are reflected back into our eye. black occurs when NO light is reflected back. |
what are the secondary colors? | violet, green, and orange. |
what are teritiary colors? | when you mix equal parts of 1 primary & 1 secondary. (example: red-violet, yellow-orange.) |
what are the colors in the color wheel called? | saturated colors because there is no white or black in them. |
what are tints and shades? | tints are saturated colors mixed with white and shades are saturated colors mixed with black. |
what are the warm and cool colors? | warm: red, orange, yellow, and sometimes pink. cool: blue and green. purple can be both warm and cool. |
what are the neutral colors? | black, white, gray, tan, and brown. |
what is a monocromatic color harmony? | when tints and shades of only one color are used. |
what is an analogous color harmony? | using three or more colors that are next to eachother on the color wheel. |
what is a complementary color harmony? | using two colors that are directly across from eachother on the color wheel. |
what is a triadic color harmony? | using 3 colors that form a triangle across the color wheel from eachother. |
what is a split complimentary color harmony? | usuing any color and the 2 colors next to it's complimenting color. |
what is a neutral color harmony? | any combination of black, brown, tan, white, or grey. |