The Basics
Colour Wheel
Mixology
The Meaning of Colour
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Colour in its purest form.
What is hue?
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The 3 main colours from which the other colours on the colour wheel are mixed.
What are primary colours?
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The use of a single colour with tints and shades also being used.
What is monochromatic?
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This colour represents urgency, passion, love, danger...
What is red?
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The lightest values on the colour wheel.
What are warm colours?
200
Adding white to a colour to make it lighter.
What is tint?
200
Colours made by mixing equal parts of primary colours.
What are secondary colours?
200
Made by mixing one primary colour with a secondary colour.
What is tertiary (or intermediate)?
200
This colour represents truth, power, coolness, melancholy...
What is blue?
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The darker values on the colour wheel.
What are cool colours?
300
Adding brown or black to a colour to make it darker.
What is shade?
300
A primary and a secondary colour that are opposite each other on the colour wheel.
What are complementary colours?
300
Mixing a colour with varying amounts of its complementary colour to change the initial colour slightly.
What is semi-neutral?
300
This colour represents warmth, happiness, cheerfulness...
What is yellow?
300
This colour represents prestige, luxury, power...
What is gold?
400
The lightness or darkness of a colour.
What is value?
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Colours that are beside each other on the colour wheel.
What are analogous colours.
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Mixing equal amounts of two complementary colours to create a grey-like value.
What is neutral grey?
400
This colour represents purity, innocence, emptiness...
What is white?
400
This colour represents health, fresh, growth...
What is green?
500
An organizational structure of colour.
What is a colour wheel?
500
Tertiary colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel.
What are split complimentary colours?
500
The degree of difference from a gray of the same lightness or brightness.
What is saturation?
500
This colour represents mystery, death, evil...
What is black?
500
An additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
What is the RGB Additive colour model?