Basics
Vocab
Harmonies
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Color Wheel
100

pure hue plus white

What is a tint?

100

intensity of the color.

What is saturation?

100

two colors opposite on the color wheel

What is a complimentary harmony?

100

the first thing and most important element people see in a floral design

What is color?

100

number of hues around the color wheel

What is 12?

200

pure hue plus gray

What is a tone?

200

a circular arrangement of colors organized by their chromatic relationship to one another. The primary colors are equidistant from each other on the wheel, and secondary and tertiary colors sit between them

What is the color wheel?

200

three colors located at equal distance from each other on the color wheel.

What is a triadic harmony?

200

pure hue plus black

What is shade?

200

Red, Yellow, Blue

What are primary colors?

300

One group of colors in the color wheel is associated with the sun, warmth and fire. 

What are warm colors?

300

aesthetically pleasing color combinations based on geometric shapes around the color wheel.

What are color harmonies? 

300

consisting of one hue (color) and tints, tones and shades of that one color. 

What is a monochromatic harmony?

300

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo & Violet

What is the visible light spectrum? 

300

Green, Orange, Purple

What are secondary colors?

400

Another group of colors in the color wheel, green, blue and purple, leave an opposite feeling of warmth

What are cool colors?

400

the basis for the primary rules and guidelines that surround color and its use in creating aesthetically pleasing visuals.

What is color theory? 

400

three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

What is an analogous harmony?

400

developed the first known theory of color

Who is Aristotle?

400

Red-Orange, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple, Blue-Green,  Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green

What are tertiary colors?

500

pure color—one without tint or shade. 

What is a hue?

500

the science of the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior and involves the messages colors communicate.

What is color psychology?

500

Consists of one primary color and two colors adjacent to its complement which is on the opposite side of the wheel.

What is a Split-Complementary Harmony?

500

uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs. harmony that forms a rectangular shade.

What is a tetradic color harmony?

500
Johannes Itten

Who is the inventor of the modern day 12-hue color wheel we use today?

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