Color Schemes
Color wheel
Elements
Principles
Colors
100

A color scheme that uses black, white and shades of gray.

What is an Achromatic color scheme.

100

The color that comes after orange on the color wheel.

What is yellow-orange?

100

The distance between and around furniture.

What is space?

100

Creates a point of interest.

What is emphasis?

100

The true name for color.

What is hue?

200

A color scheme that uses different shades and tints of one color.

What is a monochromatic color scheme?

200

The last color on the color wheel.

What is red-violet?

200

The shape of objects in the room.

What is form?

200

The way objects fit into a room.

What is scale/proportion?

200

When white is added to a color.

What is a tint?

300

A color scheme using yellow-green, green, and blue-green.

What is an analogous color scheme? 

300

The color that comes after  blue on the color wheel.

What is blue-violet?

300

Changes the mood of a room.

What is color?

300

Patterns that repeat in a room.

What is rhythm?

300

When black is added to a color.

What is shade?

400

A color scheme using red and green.

What is a complimentary color scheme?

400

The color that follows red on the color wheel.

What is red-orange?

400

The way items look and feel in a room.

What is texture?

400

Creates a visual weight in the room.

What is balance?

400

The three primary colors.

What is yellow, red, and blue?

500

A color scheme using green, orange and violet.

What is a triadic color scheme?

500

The color that follows green on the color wheel?

What is blue-green?

500

Items that repeat in a room.

What is pattern?

500

When all elements and principles work together.

What is harmony?

500

Made by mixing two primary colors.

What is a secondary color?

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