Color Vocabulary
What is hue?
The actual color name
What are analogous colors?
Colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel and look nice together.
What is a Monochromatic color scheme?
Color scheme uses only one base color with different shades, tints, and tones.
What is the color wheel?
A circular chart that shows how colors relate to each other in design.
What is RYB color system?
Traditional art color system that uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors.
What is tone?
A color made by adding gray or removing gray
What are complementary colors?
Colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.
What is a tint?
In a Monochromatic design, adding white to a color creates this.
what are primary colors?
red, blue, and yellow are known as primary colors because they cannot be created by mixing other colors.
What is RGB color system?
This color system is commonly used for digital screens and uses red green and blue.
What is CMYK?
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black; these are the colors used for printing.
What is an example of complementary colors?
Red and green
What is a shade?
In a Monochromatic color scheme, adding black to a color creates this darker variation.
what color do you get from mixing red and yellow?
orange is created by mixing these 2 colors.
Mixing what colors will give you brown?
Mixing all of the primary colors in the RYB system often produces this nark and neutral color.
What is the difference between cool and warm colors?
Cool colors feel calm and cold(blue, green, purple); warm colors feel soft and energetic (red, orange, yellow).
What is an example of analogous colors?
Blue, blue-green, and green
What does the word monochromatic mean?
This word literally means "one color" and describes designs using only variations of a single color.
What is color harmony?
Designers use analogous colors because they create this smooth and unified look.
What is saturation?
Term that describes the brightness or dullness of a color.
What is the difference between secondary colors and complementary colors?
Secondary colors are colors that are made by mixing primary colors; complementary colors are colors that are opposite on the color-wheel.
What is color contrast?
Increased brightness and intensity that occurs when complementary colors are placed next to each other.
What is the base color?
The main color that all tints, shades, and tones come from in a Monochromatic design.
What is 3-5 colors?
An analogous scheme usually uses about this many colors together
What is value?
Type of color describes how light or dark a color appears.