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Gerace 3
Intro Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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what is hue? | the name given to a color |
what does intensity mean? | the brightness or dullness of a color |
What are the three components of the color wheel? | Primary, Secondary, Intermediate or Tertiary |
What are primary colors? | blue, red, yellow |
What are secondary colors? | violet, green, orange |
What are tertiary colors? | red-violet,blue-violet,blue-green,yellow-green,yellow-orange,red-orange |
How do you make primary colors? | you cannot mix any other colors to make primary colors |
How do you make secondary colors? | You make three colors by mixing two primary colors |
How do you make intermediate colors? | when you mix one primary and one secondary color |
What does the word tint mean? | a color lighter than on the color wheel |
What does the word shade mean? | a color darker than on the color wheel |
What color is added to create a tint? | white |
What color is added to create a shade? | black |
What does a Monochromatic harmony/scheme mean? | one color with different shades and tints |
What does a Complimentary harmony/scheme mean? | two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel |
What does a Analogous harmony/scheme mean? | three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Monochromatic harmony/scheme? | one |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Complimentary harmony/scheme? | two |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in an Analogous harmony/scheme? | three or more |
What colors are considered warm? | red, orange, yellow |
What colors are considered neutral? | tans, browns, whites |
What colors are considered cool? | blue, green, violet |
What colors are on each side of the color Blue on the color wheel? | Blue-violent and Blue-green |
What colors are on each side of the color Yellow on the color wheel? | yelow-green and yellow-orange |
What colors are on each side of the color Red on the color wheel? | red-orange and red-violet |