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Color-C. Gawe
Color Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is color? | an element of design |
| How is color perceived? | it occurs when light in diff. wave lengths hits our eyes |
| What are the three kinds of light? | incandescent, fluorescent, and natural |
| What are the three kinds of colors? | primary, secondary, and tertiary |
| what are the primary colors? | red, blue, and yellow |
| what are the secondary colors? | colors mixed by two primary colors: violet, green, and orange |
| What are the tertiary colors? | when you mix one primary and one secondary: blue-violet, red-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange |
| What is a hue? | a colorex. green or red |
| what is a tint? | a sarurated color mixed with a white color (the more white the lighter it gets) |
| What is a shade? | a saturated color mixed with black (the more black the darker it gets) |
| What are some warm colors? | red, orange, and yellow |
| what are some cool colors? | blue, green, and violet |
| what are some neutral colors? | black, grey, white, brown, and tan |
| What are some color harmonies? | monochromatic, analogous, complementary, tradic, split complementary, neutral |
| WHat is Monochromatic color harmony? and give an example | i achieved by using tints and shades of one color ex. navy blue, bright blue, and baby blue in a room |
| WHat is Analogous color harmony? and give an example | achieved by using 3 or more colors next to each other on color wheel ex. blue, blue-green, green |
| What is Complementary color harmony? and give an example | two colors that are directly across from each other ex. yellow and violet |
| What is Triadic color harmony? an give an example | three colors that are within an equal distance of each other ex. red, blue, and yellow |
| what is Split complementary harmony? and give an example | created by using any color and the two colors located next to that colors complement ex. yellow, red violet, blue violet |
| What is Neutral color harmony? | any como of blacks, greys, whites, browns, and tans |
| How is White Percieved? | When wavelengths hit your eye |
| How is black perceived | when no wavelengths hit your eyes |
| What is a saturated color? | the color with nothing added |
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