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Color Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do you percieve white? | Get light |
| How do you percieve black? | absorbed light |
| What is hue | another way of saying color |
| What are the primary colors? | red, blue, and yellow |
| What are the secondary colors | violet, green, orange |
| What are the tertiary colors? | red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange |
| What is a saturated color | tint color mixed with pure white |
| What three groups make up the color wheel? | primary, secondary, and tertiary colors |
| What is a tint | a saturated color |
| What is a shade | saturated color that is mixed with pure black |
| 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? | Green, blue, violet |
| What are the five neutral colors | black, grey, white, brown and tan |
| What are the six types of color harmonies | monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, neutral, triadic |
| What is a monochromatic color harmony | tint shades of only one color used |
| What is an analougus color harmony? | Use three or more colors that are next to eachothyer on the color wheel |
| What is a complementary color harmony? | two colors that are directly across from each other on wheel |
| What is a triadic color harmony? | three colors that are located within equal distance from eachother |
| What is a split complementary scheme? | Using any color and he wo colors located next to that colors complement |
| What is a neutral color scheme? | any combination of the neutrals |