Colour Relationships
Vocabulary
What am I?
Tint or Shade?
RANDOM
100

I am one colour in a variety of tints and shades.

Monochromatic

100

Tint

To add white to a hue/colour.

100

Blue and Orange

Complimentary colours.

100
Red + White

Tint

100

A colour that represents royalty, power, and rich.

Purple.

200

Red, blue, and yellow.

Triad/Triadic.

200

Shade

To add black to a hue/colour.

200

Red, Red-Violet, Violet

Analogue/Analogous.

200

Blue + black.

Shade.

200

A colour representing depression, death, or sadness.

Black.

300

Two colours opposite on the colour wheel.

Complimentary colours.

300

Hue

Colour

300

Green, purple, and orange.

Secondary colours.

300

White + Green + Yellow

Tint.

300

There are this many colours on the colour wheel.

12

400

Three colours that are spaced equally apart.

Triadic.

400

Earth Tones.

Neutral colours.

400

Brown

Neutral Tones/Earth colours.

400

Red-Orange + Black.

Shade.

400

I created the colour wheel.

Sir Isaac Newton

500

3-5 colours beside each other on the colour wheel.

Analogue/Analagous.

500

De-saturate.

Remove colour.

500

Red-Violet, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green

Tertiary colours.

500

Black + White

Neither/Both

500

Apart from the RYB colour wheel, these two colour wheels are popular in technology.

RGB, CYMK

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