Chapter 7 -- Color

Question 1

color created by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue

Answer 1

Additive Color

Question 2

mixing of a limited set of dyes, inks, paint pigments or natural colorants to create a wider range of colors

Answer 2

Subtractive Color

Question 3

Three colors spaced an equal distance apart on the color wheel forming an equilateral triangle. The twelve-color wheel is made up of a primary triad, a secondary triad and two intermediate triads.

Answer 3

Color Triad

Question 4

The hues from which all others can be mixed. These are preliminary hues that cannot be broken down or reduced into component colors.

Answer 4

Primary Color

Question 5

Hues made by mixing two primary colors.

Answer 5

Secondary Color

Question 6

A color produced by a mixture of a primary color and a secondary color.

Answer 6

Intermediate Color

Question 7

Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel.

Answer 7

Complimentary Colors

Question 8

A color and the two colors on either side of its

compliment.

Answer 8

Split-Complimentary

Question 9

The band of individual colors that results when a beam of white light is broken into its component wavelengths, iden9fiable as hues.

Answer 9

Spectrum

Question 10

Black, white or gray; a non-chromaHc hue.

Answer 10

Neutral

Question 11

The effect of adding white to a hue.

Answer 11

Tint

Question 12

The effect of adding black to a hue.

Answer 12

Shade

Question 13

The relaHve purity of a color- also called Intensity or Chroma

Answer 13

Saturation

Question 14

Any color that has a value level of middle gray or lighter

Answer 14

High-Key Color

Question 15

Any color that has a value level of middle gray or darker

Answer 15

Low-Key Color

Question 16

A color scheme based on one hue. This includes the range of values within that hue.

Answer 16

Monochromatic

Question 17

The name given to a color to describe its locaHon on the color spectrum
based upon its wavelength.

Answer 17

Hue

Question 18

The degree of lightness or darkness in a color.

Answer 18

Value

Question 19

Powdered coloring materials used to give hues to paints and inks.

Answer 19

Pigment

Question 20

Hues that lie adjacent (next to each other) on the color wheel.

Answer 20

Analogous

Question 21

The color as seen in the objecHve world. The color sensaHon received from a nearby object under average lighHng condiHons.

Answer 21

Local Color