Color Terms
What is the term for the name of a color on the color wheel?
Hue
What is the color scheme that uses two colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel?
Complementary
How many colors are on the color wheel?
12
What type of colors tend to be more cheerful?
Name the primary colors?
Red, yellow, and blue
What is created when black is added to a color?
Shade
What is the color scheme that uses tints, tones, and shades of only one color?
Monochromatic
What are the colors called that are made from a primary and its neighboring secondary color called?
Tertiary
Cool colors tend to have what effect on their space?
Expand or make it feel bigger
Name the secondary colors.
Orange, green, purple
What is created when white is added to a color?
Tint
Which color scheme uses 3 colors the are equidistant from each other on the color wheel?
Triad
What are the 3 colors that are combined to create all colors on the color wheel?
Red, yellow, blue
Which type of colors increase the appetite and encourage quick decision making and creativity?
Warm
Complete the missing triadic color: Red-orange, yellow-green, ___________.
Blue-violet
What term refers to the brightness or dullness of a color?
Intensity
What is the color scheme that uses colors not found on the color wheel?
Neutral
What color is the complement of orange?
Blue
Bright, warm colors tend to have what effect on their space?
Make it feel smaller, advancing
What additional colors would be used if you were creating an analogous color scheme using purple and red-violet? Name 3.
Possible answers: red-orange, red, blue-violet, blue, blue-green
What is the lightness or darkness of a hue created by adding black or white?
Value
Which color scheme uses mostly neutral colors and a little bit of an actual color found on the color wheel?
Accented neutral
What is the name for colors that do not appear on the color wheel?
Neutrals
Which elements affect color?
Texture and Light
What two colors could be added to a bright orange to make it less intense?
Gray
Blue (its complement)