da Vinci
color
What is color?
The qualities and appearance of the surface of an object or plane in an image or design. Examples: smooth, rough, cracked, etc.
What is texture?
A hue + gray.
What is a tone?
An image frame that is oriented vertically.
What is portrait format?
The basic colors (red, yellow, blue) that cannot be created by combining other colors and from which all other colors can be made.
What are primary colors?
Colors (orange, green, violet) made by mixing equal parts of two primary colors together.
What are secondary colors?
A hue + white.
What is a tint?
Relative lightness or darkness of a color as measured on a scale from black to white.
What is value?
Colors which appear opposite each other on the color wheel. These colors complete each other on the color spectrum.
What are complementary colors?
The part of an image which appears to recede or forms the background.
What is negative space?
An image frame that is oriented horizontally.
What is landscape format?
Colors that are adjacent on the color wheel. These colors will have a similar temperature and hue.
What are analogous colors?
A principle of art, refers to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark values, warm vs. cool colors, large vs. small shapes, organic vs. geometric shapes, rough vs. smooth textures, isolated vs. grouped objects, etc.)
What is contrast?
The part of an image which occupied by the figure or subject.
What is positive space?
A color of lowered intensity or purity, usually because it has been mixed with its complement.
What is a muted color?
The characteristic of a color which makes it appear either warm or cool in feeling. Red, orange, and yellow are usually considered warm, while colors containing blue are regarded as being cool.
What is color temperature?
The center of interest in an image or design created by using color, contrast, proportion, etc.
What is the focal point?
The purity or intensity of a color.
What is saturation?
Colors located between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel, created by mixing any adjacent primary and secondary color. Examples: red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet.
What are tertiary colors?
The arrangement, variation and contrast of light and dark values in an image.
What is the value pattern?
A color of lowered intensity or purity because it has been muted, tinted, shaded or toned.
What is a desaturated color?
A color scheme that uses only one color with tints, shades and tones of that color.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
A color scheme that uses colors opposite each other on the color wheel. Example: yellow and violet.
What is a complementary color scheme?
A hue + black.
What is a shade?
A color scheme that uses hues next to each other on the color wheel. Example: red, red-violet and red-orange.
What is an analogous color scheme?