The Color Wheel
The three colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors.
What are primary colors?
This color model is mainly used for digital devices.
What is RGB?
Colors that sit adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
A color scheme that uses one hue with different tints and shades.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
The relative brightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
The colors created by mixing two primary colors.
What are secondary colors?
This color model is mainly used for printing.
What is CMYK?
Colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
Adding white to a color creates this.
What is a tint?
The intensity or purity of a color.
What is saturation?
The colors created by mixing a primary and a secondary color.
What are tertiary colors?
This color model is subtractive
What is CMYK?
Red and green is an example of this color harmony.
What are complementary colors?
Adding black to a color creates this.
What is a shade?
When colors work well together visually.
What is color harmony?
The circular diagram that organizes colors and shows the relationships between them.
What is the color wheel?
This color model is additive.
What is RGB?
Blue, blue-green, and green are an example of this type of color scheme.
What are analogous colors?
A design using only shades of blue would be this type of color scheme.
What is a monochromatic scheme?
A color made by mixing a primary and secondary color.
What is a tertiary color?
The three primary colors in color theory.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
The name for the limited range of colors a device can display or print.
What is gamut?
Designers often use complementary colors to create this visual effect.
What is contrast?
The term that describes color itself (like red, blue, or yellow).
What is hue?
The arrangement of colors used in a design.
What is a color scheme?