Types of Color
These are colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors
What are primary colors?
Red, orange, and yellow are considered these.
What are warm colors?
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
This property of color refers to how light or dark a color appears.
What is value?
These are made by mixing a primary with a secondary color next to it.
What are tertiary colors?
Blue, green, and violet are considered these.
What are cool colors?
Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
This property of color refers to the purity or intensity of color.
What is saturation?
Red, yellow, and blue are examples of these.
What are primary colors?
This color is often considered neutral but leans warm.
What is brown?
A set of three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel.
What is a triadic color scheme?
The brightness of a color is another way of describing this property.
What is intensity?
Orange, green, and purple are examples of these.
What are secondary colors.
This group of colors is associated with ice, water, and calmness.
What are cool colors?
Blue and orange together create this type of contrast.
What is complementary contrast?
This property of color refers to the actual name (like red, blue, green).
What is hue?
Colors that belong to one family, such as different shade of blue.
What are monochromatic colors?
Artists sometimes use this term for colors that don't lean warm or cool.
What are neutral colors?
A group of four colors arranged as a rectangle on the color wheel.
What is a Tetradic Scheme?
Mixing a color with white creates this type of variation.
What is a tint?