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Color Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how do you perceive white? | when all wavelegnths are reflected |
| how do you perceive black? | when all wavlegnths are absorbed |
| what is hue? | color |
| what are the primary colors? | red, yellow, blue |
| what are the secondary colors? | violet, green, orange |
| what are the tertiary colors? | red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet |
| what is a saturated color? | pure hue |
| what three groups make up the color wheel? | primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors |
| whats is tint? | a saturated color with black added to it |
| what is shade? | a saturated color with white added to it |
| what are three colors that are considered warm colors? | red, orange, yellow |
| what are three colors that are considered cool colors? | blue, green, violet |
| what are the five neutral colors? | beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, white |
| what are the six types of color harmonies? | monochrmatic, complimentary, split conplementary, analagous, triad, polychromatic |
| what is a monochromatic color harmony? | tints and shades of a single, saturated color harmony |
| what is an analogous color harmony? | a scheme of two colors that are adjacent to eachother on the color wheel. |
| what is a complimentary color harmony? | a scheme of two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel |
| what is a triadic color harmony? | a scheme of colors that consists of three colors that are equal distances apart on the color wheel |
| what is a split complimentary scheme? | a scheme of three colors that for a 'Y' like figure on the color wheel |
| what is a neutral color sheme? | a color scheme that uses only neutral colors (brown, white,ect...) |