Color Wheel
Definitions I
Color Schemes
Color Mixing
Definitions II
100
The six basic colors on a color wheel
What are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
100
Red, yellow and blue
What are the primary colors?
100
Red, yellow and orange
What are warm colors?
100
Red mixed with blue
What is purple
100
Another word for color
What is hue?
200
Colors located directly across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
200
Color made by mixing a primary and secondary color.
What is a tertiary or intermediate color?
200
Red, red-violet, violet, blue-violet
What are analogous colors?
200
A color created by mixing two primary colors.
What is a secondary color?
200
A pure color plus black
What is a shade?
300
Colors that are next to one another on the color wheel
What are analogous colors?
300
The secondary colors.
What are orange, green and purple?
300
A color scheme using only tints and shades of a single color.
What is monochromatic?
300
The color created by mixing red and orange
What is red-orange?
300
A pure color plus white
What is a tint?
400
The colors located between the primary and secondary colors.
What are tertiary or intermediate colors?
400
The neutral colors.
What are black, white, gray and brown?
400
Blue, green and purple
What are cool colors?
400
The color created by mixing blue and yellow.
What is green?
400
A pure color plus gray
What is a tone?
500
Four colors that are NOT found on the color wheel.
What are black, white, gray and brown?
500
Created when light interacts with stuff.
What is color?
500
Red and green
What are complementary colors?
500
A color created by mixing a primary and a secondary color.
What is a tertiary or intermediate color?
500
The lightness or darkness of a color
What is value?