The Color Wheel
Red, blue, and yellow.
What are the primary colors?
Lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
This condition affects 1 in 12 men in the world.
What is color blindness?
Describes a color scheme using mostly red, yellow, and orange.
What is warm?
A palette of colors put together to create a cohesive statement.
What is a color story?
The Secondary colors.
What are green, purple, and orange?
How bright/ saturated a color is.
What is intensity?
The kind of energy that allows us to see color.
What is light?
One color.
What is monochromatic?
The element in paint that gives it color.
What is pigment?
Color + black
What is a shade?
The term for pure color.
What is hue?
This acronym is used to remember the colors of the rainbow.
What is ROY G BIV?
Opposite on the color wheel.
What is complementary?
Artists mix paint on this.
What is a palette?
Color + white
What is a tint?
All the colors of light mixed together.
What is white?
This color is the highest frequency color that we can see.
What is violet?
Next to eachother on the color wheel.
What is analogous?
What you get when you mix all the primary colors.
What is brown?
Yellow-green and blue-green are examples of this kind of color.
What are tertiary?
Color + grey
What is a tone?
The visible light and color we can see is just one part of this Spectrum?
What is Electromagentic?
Evenly spaced on the color wheel.
What is triadic?
Type of color you get when you mix two complementary colors.
What is a neutral?