Color Theory A
The category of colors that include Red, Yellow, & Blue.
What are the primary colors?
Secondary colors are created by mixing two of these together.
What are the primary colors?
This is the phenomenon of hue, value, and saturation.
What is color?
The category of colors that include green, orange, and purple.
What are the secondary colors?
Orange, Green, and Purple create this type of color scheme
You can lower this of a color by mixing it with its compliment.
What is
saturation?
Colors on the left side of the wheel that have more blue in them.
What are cool colors?
Colors on the right side of the color wheel that have more yellow in them.
What are warm colors?
An uncomfortable phenomena caused by having highly contrasting, very bright colors next to one another.
What are Color Vibrations?
Tertiary colors are created by mixing one primary color with one of these.
What is a secondary color.
A hue mixed with white.
What is a tint?
Red, Red-Orange, Orange, & Yellow-Orange are examples of this color scheme.
What are analogous colors?
The phenomenon that causes a color to be perceived differently based on it's surroundings
What is Color Constancy?
These type of colors are perceived in afterimages due to cone receptors in the eye becoming exhausted
What are complementary colors?
This term refers to the actual name of a color.
What is hue?
This term refers to the darkness or lightness of a color.
What is value.
Colors that are opposite/across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
This is caused by staring at an image for an extended period of time and then looking away.
What are afterimages?
In order to limit vibrations between colors we can decrease this by adding tint or shade to ONE of the colors
What is saturation?
This term refers to the pureness, vibrancy, or intensity of a color.
What is saturation?
Two to four colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
A hue mixed with black.
What is a shade?
A color scheme that uses one hue/color with tints and shades to show realism.
What is monochromatic?
Red, yellow green, and blue-green make up this type of color scheme.
What is split complementary?