Color Basics
Scales & Schemes
Color Palettes
Terminology & Vocabulary
Wild/Fun Trivia
100

This group of colors cannot be produced from mixing other colors.

What are the Primary Colors?

100

This term refers to the scale of lightness to darkness.

What is Value?

100

This palette contains the use of one color, regardless of values and/or chroma.

What is Monochromatic?

100

This term refers the result of a color mixed with an equal part of white.

What is a Tint?

100

This famous acronym is used to identify the seven colors present in a rainbow.

What/Who is ROY G. BIV?

200

This group consists of colors that are a result of mixing together equal parts of one primary color and one secondary color.

What are the Tertiary Colors?

200

Though they are referred to as "values", black, grey, and white are also in a category called this.

What are the Neutral Colors?

200

These colors are generally agreed to be those which fall into the red, orange and yellow families of color, also tend to evoke thoughts of ____ things, such as fire and sunlight.

What are Warm Colors?

200

This term refers to the purity of color.

What is Chroma?

200

This refers to the natural compound or pigment that is present in green plants and gives them their color.

What is Chlorophyll?

300

This tool is designed and used as a guide for color organization.

What is the Color Wheel?

300

This term refers to the scale of warmness and coolness.

What is Temperature?

300

This palette is comprised of related colors, which can refer to any three or four colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel.

What are Analogous Colors?

300

This term refers to the result of a color mixed with an equal part of grey.

What is a Tone?

300

The color wheel was invented by this famous figure in history.

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

400

This term refers to pure color, as it appears in a tube of paint; it can also be used interchangeably with the word, "color". 

What is Hue?

400

Mixing together equal parts of two complimentary colors result in this color.

What is Brown?

400

These colors refer to those colors which fall into the blue, green and purple families, also tend to evoke thoughts of things that are _____ in temperature, such as the ocean or the feeling of grass on bare feet.

What are Cool Colors?

400

This term refers to the result of a color mixed with an equal part of black.

What is a Shade?

400

This color is primarily used by food companies to draw in consumers.

What is Red?

500

This group consists of colors that are the result of mixing together equal parts of two different primary colors.

What are the Secondary Colors?

500

This term refers to the scale of brightness and dullness.

What is Chroma?

500

This refers to any colors that are across from each other on a color wheel.

What are Complimentary Colors?

500

Each of the colors on the color wheel is described by its _____, or raw and pure color.

What is Hue?

500

This term is used to describe a persistent and irrational fear of colors.

What is Chromophobia?