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Intro Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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How do you percieve white? | Colorless, used as a tool to tint a color. |
How do you percieve black? | Dark, used as a tool to shade a color. |
What is hue? | The name given to a color. |
What are the primary colors? | Red, Blue, and Yellow |
What are the secondary colors? | Violet, Green, and Orange |
What are the tertiary colors? | Red-violet, Blue-violet, Blue-green, Yellow-green, Yellow-orange, and Red-orange. |
What is a saturated color? | Bright hues |
What three groups make up the color wheel? | Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary |
What is a tint? | A value lighter than that on the color wheel. Add white |
What is a shade? | A value darker than that on the color wheel. Add black |
What are three colors that are considered to be warm colors? | Red, Orange, and Yellow |
What are three colors that are considered to be cool colors? | Blue, Green, and possibly Violet |
What are the five neutral colors? | Tans, Browns, Whites, Cream, and Gray |
What are the six types of color harmonies? | Primary, Secondary, Complementary, Warm Analogous, Cool Analogous, and Monochromatic |
What is a monochromatic color harmony? | One hue with different tints and shades |
What is an analougus color harmony? | 3 or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. |
What is an complementary harmony? | 2 colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. |
What is a triadic color harmony? | When you mix equal parts of one primary and one secondary. |
What is a split complementary scheme? | 2 colors adjacent to the base color. |
What is a neutral color scheme? | Has no hue, and transmit a very little amount of light. |