Color Systems
The color system consisting of primary colors: red, green, and blue.
What is the Additive Color System?
Colors opposite to each other on the color wheel, known for high-contrast pleasing color combinations.
What is complimentary colors?
These three colors are the primary colors of the subtractive color system used for painting. (Hint: Printing uses a different set of primaries)
What is Red, Yellow, and Blue?
This is the process of adding black to adjust a hue.
What is shade or shading?
This is the wrong color mode to utilize for designing for print.
What is RGB?
What is the Subtractive Color System?
A painting using blue, white, and black would use this color scheme named for the ancient Greek word mónos.
What is monochromatic?
Finish the equation:
Primary + _____________ = Tertiary
What is Secondary?
This is the richness or dullness of a color, with 0% being grayscale.
What is saturation?
This letter represents black in the subtractive color system used for printing applications.
What is "K"?
This color system works with inks, paints, and pigments.
What is the subtractive color system?
This color scheme is known for harmonious color combinations and contains three colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
What is analogous color scheme?
If you wanted to tone a warm red to a more neutral red, you would add this color.
What is grey?
Understanding how different colors have different pigments is important to achieve this element of art in color theory.
What is value?
The four colors of the color mode used for print.
What is Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and Black
The color system the human eye utilizes to perceive color.
What is the Additive Color System?
This color scheme provides more value options for two pairs of complimentary colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
What is split-complimentary color scheme?
This is the result of mixing two primary colors.
What is secondary color?
This is the color mode you'd select to design print out brochures, business cards, and flyers.
What is CMYK?
You would select this color mode when designing a website banner.
What is RGB?
Subtractive is to Pigment as Additive is to_____________.
What is light?
Orange-red, Red-purple, Blue-green, and Yellow-Green is an example of this color scheme.
What is tetradic color scheme?
True or False: Red + Green = Tertiary Color
False - Red is a primary and green is a secondary, but they are not adjacent to each other on the color wheel
These two principles of art are often most prominent amongst complimentary colors.
What is Contrast and Emphasis?
This is the PPI resolution for designing for quality prints.
What is 300 PPI?