Color Basics
These colors create orange when evenly mixed.
Red and Yellow
Color wheel
This color is often associated with nature, growth, and renewal, reflecting its pervasive presence in the natural environment.
Green
A measurement of how light or dark a color is.
Brightness
These colors cannot be created by mixing other colors within their respective color mode.
Primary colors
A color harmony composed of a color and it's direct opposite on a color wheel.
Complementary
Representing both the sky and the sea, this color symbolizes stability, tranquility, and calmness.
Blue
A measurement of color intensity.
Saturation
These colors are made by combining primary colors.
Secondary color
A color harmony composed of three evenly spaced colors on a color wheel.
Triad
This color is frequently linked with energy, danger, and emotion, making it a powerful attention-getter.
Red
A measurement of the difference in lightness between two colors.
Contrast
The three primary colors of a full-color digital display.
Red, green, and blue
A color harmony composed of a single hue in different lightness values
Shades
Symbolizing purity, innocence, and beginnings, this "color" is actually the presence of all colors of light, reflecting them equally.
White
An adjustment that reverses both hue and lightness values.
Invert
The four colors of the model used in printing, represented by the initials CMYK.
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black
A color harmony composed of a color and both directly adjacent colors on a color wheel.
Analogous
Often associated with royalty, luxury, and ambition, this color also represents mystery and magic due to its historical rarity in dyes.
Purple
A complex adjustment that increases the contrast of both hue and brightness in areas determined to be "edges" based on their initial contrast.
Sharpness