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Color Terms
Question | Answer |
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What is a monochromatic color scheme? | Achieved by using tints and shades of only one color ex: navy blue, bright blue, and baby blue |
What is an analogous color scheme? | Made up of three or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel ex: red, red-violet, violet ex: blue, blue-green, green |
What is an accented neutral color scheme? | Mostly neutral colors with one or more splashes of color from the color wheel |
What color scheme is 2 colors opposite on the color wheel. | Complementary color scheme |
How many colors in a split complementary color scheme? | Three |
Name the Primary colors. | Red, Blue, Yellow |
Name the secondary colors. | Violet, Green, Orange |
What is the value of a color? | The lightness and darkness of a color |
What is the intensity of a color mean? | The brightness or dullness of a color |
What is the hue? | The color itself, another word for color |
How do you make a tint? | By mixing a saturated color with pure white and the more white, the lighter the color will become |
How do you make a shade? | By mixing a saturated color with pure black and the more black, the darker the color will become |
What are the warm colors? | Red, Orange, Yellow |
What are the cool colors.? | Blue, Green, Violet |
What are the neutral colors? | Black, Grey, White, Brown, Tan |
What is unique about the primary colors? | They are three basic colors that are used to create all of the other colors and you cannot achieve these colors by mixing any other colors together. |
Name 3 tertiary colors. | Red-Violet, Blue-green, Red-orange |
What is the proper way to name a tertiary color? | The primary color is always listed first |
What is another name for a tertiary color? | Intermediate |
What is a triadic color scheme? | three colors that are located within equal distance of each other ex: red, blue, yellow |