Color Theory 1
The name of the color
what are Hue
3 warm colors
What are Red, Orange, Yellow.
3 cool colors
Blue, Green, Purple
Red and Yellow make this color.
What is Orange?
The colors that computer monitors produce.
What is RGB (red, green & blue)
These are lightened colors. Any color plus white mixed in.
What are Tints
Darker colors - any color plus black mixed in.
What are Shades
The location of a complementary colors scheme
What are Colors that are across from each other on the color wheel?
Colors that produce the illusion that they are closer to the viewer.
What are cool colors
A monochromatic color scheme would include this
One hue + black and white.
Colors put together by using the color wheel are called?
What are Color Schemes
These are the Primary colors.
What are Red, Yellow, Blue?
Used to create the tertiary colors?
What is one primary and one secondary color
Yellow and Blue make this color
What is Green
What are analogous colors
The lightness and darkness of a color.
What is value?
These are the secondary colors.
What is Orange, Green, Purple
When we mix two primary colors together we get these colors.
What are secondary colors?
The type color that results from mixing complementary colors together.
What are neutral colors
These colors - beige, taupe, gray, cream, brown etc, are examples of what type of colors
What are neutral colors?
These colors fall in between the primary and secondary colors.
What are tertiary colors
A single hue shown as a full range of values.
What does monochromatic mean?
What we use to define colors
The color wheel.
When colors appear further away (or receding) from the viewer
What are warm colors
Refers to the characteristics of color in terms of brightness or dullness.
What is intensity