Color Wheel Basics
Color Properties
Color Schemes
100

The three primary colors.

What are red, yellow, and blue?

100

The name of the color itself.

What is hue?

100

The color scheme using one color with its tints and shades.

What is monochromatic?

200

The color made by mixing red and blue.

What is violet/purple?

200

The term for a color mixed with white.

What is tint?

200

The color scheme using colors opposite each other on the wheel.

What is complementary?

300

The number of colors on the traditional color wheel.

What is twelve?

300

The element of art describing how light or dark a color is.

What is value?

300

The color scheme using three colors equally spaced on the wheel.

What is triadic?

400

Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

What are analogous colors?

400

The term for how bright or dull a color is.

What is saturation?

400

The color scheme known for harmony using neighboring colors.

What is analogous?

500

Colors created by mixing a primary and a secondary color.

What are tertiary colors?

500

The term for a color mixed with black.

What is shade?

500

An example of a complementary color pair.

What are red and green OR blue and orange OR yellow and violet/purple?

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