The Color Wheel
What are the three primary colors on the color wheel?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
What does RGB stand for in color systems?
Red, Green, and Blue.
What are analogous colors?
Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What does monochromatic mean?
Using one color in different tints, tones, and shades.
What are complementary colors?
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
Name the three secondary colors.
Orange, green, and violet (purple)
Which system is used for printing: RGB or CMYK?
CMYK.
What two colors are analogous to red?
Red-Violet and Red-Orange.
What is a monotone color scheme?
A scheme using only one color, often gray or sepia.
What is the complementary color of blue?
Orange.
How many tertiary colors are there on a standard color wheel?
Six.
In the additive color system, what color do you get when you mix all three primaries?
White.
How many colors are typically included in an analogous color scheme?
Three to five.
How do you create a tint of a color?
By adding white to the color.
What happens when you mix two complementary colors together?
They create a neutral color.
Which color is directly opposite to yellow on the color wheel?
Violet (Purple).
In the subtractive color system, what are the primary colors?
Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow?
True or False: Analogous colors create high contrast in designs?
False.
How do you create a shade of a color?
By adding black to the color.
Name the complementary pair for green.
Green and Red.
List all six tertiary colors.
Red-orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, and Red-Violet.
What does the âKâ in CMYK stand for?
Black.
Which color would NOT be analogous to red: orange, red-orange, or green?
Green.
True or False: A monochromatic color scheme can include both very light and very dark versions of the same hue.
True.
Why are complementary colors often used together in art and design?
Because they create strong visual contrast and make each other appear more vibrant.