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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you percieve white? | When all the wave lengths are refelected back into your eye |
How do you percieve black? | When no light is reflected back into your eye |
What is hue? | Color it's self |
What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue and Yellow |
What are the secondary colors? | Green, Violet, Orange |
What are the tertiary colors? | Red-Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green, Yellow-Orange, and Red-Orange |
What is a saturated color? | If there is no black or white in the color it's called saturated |
What three groups make up the color wheel? | Primary, secondary, and tertiary |
What is a tint? | A saturated color that is mixed iwth pure white color |
What is a shade? | A saturated color that is mixed with pure balck color |
What are three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | Red, Orange Yellow |
What are three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | Blue Green, Violet |
What are the five neutral colors? | Black, Grey, White, Brown and tan |
What are the six types of color harmonies? | Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Tradic, Split-Complementary, Neutral |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | they are achieved by using tints and shades of only one color |
What is an analougus color harmony? | using three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel |
What is a complementary color harmony? | Two colors that are directly across from each other on the wheel |
What is a triadic color harmony? | three colors that are located with in equal distance of each other |
What is a split complementary scheme? | any color and the color located next to that colors complement |
What is a neutral color scheme? | Any combination of Blacks, Greys, Whites, Browns and tans |