CH. 1 Nature of Color

Question 1

What’s Color?

Answer 1

Color is a uniquely human experience.

Question 2

Aspects of Color

Answer 2

Physical, psychological, and chemical

Question 3

PRIMARY COLORS OF LIGHT

Answer 3

• Red, green and blue (RGB)
• Primary Colors of light, esential hues or primary hues
• This are the components of all other hues
• Like Prime numbers this can’t be broken down
• Different from traditional painting primaries: red, yellow, blue.

Question 4

ADDITIVE COLOR SYSTEM

Answer 4

The basis for all other color systems.

• Forming different colors, additive primaries wavelenghts are reflected or added together
• The seconrary hues form the primaries of process color.

Question 5

COLOR PERCEPTION

Answer 5

Color is a uniquely human experience

Question 6

HOW DO WE RECEIVE LIGHT INFORMATION TO SEE A COLOR?

Answer 6

Through two different types of color recepetors cells.

Rod cells: Light/Dark (Value)

Cone cells: Selectively respond to specific colors.

Question 7

COLOR PERCEPTION FACTORS

Answer 7

Amount and quality of light on colored surfaces

Visual Health

Surface quality of the colored object

Source of the color (reflective, transparent, atmospheric, iridescent)

Color relationships (surroundings: lighting, shadows, highlights)

Question 8

SUBTRACTIVE COLOR SYSTEM

Answer 8

Opaque surfaces that reflect light

Surface colors

Physical colors of pigments, inks or dies.

Describes the way light reflects from or absorbs into surfaces

In mixutres of paints or dyes, subtractive colors lose intensity as light wavelenghts are decreased or subtracted

Question 9

SUBTRACTIVE COLORS

Answer 9

Pigment “Primaries”: Red, Yellow, Blue (RYB)

Process Primaries: RGB Secondaries (or Additives Secondary): cyan, magenta, yellow (CMY)

Pigment “Secondaries”: Green, orange, purple

Question 10

ADDITIVE ⇔ SUBTRACTIVE COLORS

Answer 10

Is a clear inverse relationship

Question 11

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

Answer 11

Any two colors Opposite in the color wheel

Opposites = complements

Located directly across from each other on the color circle

Complete each other in a type of color balance

Question 12

COMPLEMENTARY PAIRS

Answer 12

Subtractive System

Red ⇔ Green

Yellow ⇔ Purple

Blue ⇔ Orange

Additive System

Red ⇔ Cyan

Green ⇔ Magenta

Blue ⇔ Yellow

Question 13

LOCAL AND RELATIVE COLOR

Answer 13

Color interaction

The general color of an object under normal lighting (daylight or white light) conditions.

Simple method of color perception and interpretation

Colors are perceived in context

It is based on comparison and contrast

Question 14

Johnn Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749-1832)

Answer 14

Developed a color theory based on subtractive (pigments and surface color) perception.