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Weinstein 2
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, and Tertiary colors. |
What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, Yellow. |
What are the secondary colors? | Violet, Green, Orange. |
How do you make primary colors? | They are the colors that exist in the environment. |
How do you make secondary colors? | By blending equal parts of 2 primary colors. |
How do you make tertiary/intermediate colors? | By blending equal parts of a primary and a secondary color. |
What does the word tint mean? | The word tint means a value lighter than that on the color wheel. |
What does the word shade mean? | The word shade means a value darker than that on a 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 hue with different tints and shades. |
What does a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme mean? | 2 colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. |
What does a Analogous Harmony/Scheme mean? | 3 or more colors next to each other on the color wheel. |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Monochromatic Harmony/Scheme? | 1. |
How many colors from the color wheel are represented in a Complimentary Harmony/Scheme? | 2. |
How many colors fro the color wheel are represented in an Analogous Harmony/Scheme? | 3 or more. |
What colors are considered warm colors? | Orange, Red, Yellow. |
What colors are considered cool colors? | Blue, Green, and sometimes Violet. |
What colors are considered neutral colors? | Tans, browns, and whites. |
What colors are on each side of the color Blue on the color wheel? | Blue-Green and Blue-Violet. |
What colors are on each side of the color Yellow on the color wheel? | Yellow-Orange and Yellow-Green |
What colors are on each side of the color Red on the color wheel? | Red-Violet and Red-Orange |