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Color-S. Edmonds
Color terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do you percieve white? | when all the wavelengths are reflected to your eye |
| How do you percieve black? | when no light is reflected to your eye |
| What is hue? | the color |
| What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, Yellow |
| What are the secondary colors? | Orange, Green, Violet |
| What are the tertiary colors? | red-violet, blue-violet, blue- green, yellow- green,yellow-orange, red-orange |
| What is a saturated color? | when there is no black or white in the color |
| What three groups make up the color wheel? | Primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors |
| What is a tint? | A saturated color that is mixed with pure white color |
| What is a shade? | A saturated color that is mixed with pure black color |
| What three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | red, orange, yellow |
| What three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | blue, green, violet |
| What are the five nuetral colors? | black, grey, white, brown, and tan |
| What are the six types of color harmonies? | monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, split complementary, neutral |
| What is a monochromatic color harmony? | achieved by using tints and shades of only one color |
| What is a 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 color wheel. |
| What is a triadic color harmony? | three colors that are located within equal distance of each other |
| What is a spilt complementary color scheme? | this is created by using any color and the two colors located next to that color complement |
| What is a neutral color scheme? | any combination of blacks, greys, whites, browns, and tans |