Color & Contrast

Question 1

Hue

Answer 1

the primary value of a color and how the color red, green, blue, purple, etc. is perceived through the eye.

Question 2

Chroma

Answer 2

the purity of a color (a high chroma has no added black, white or gray).

Question 3

Saturation

Answer 3

a comparative measure for the intensity of a color (usually compared to the highest chroma, purest color).

Question 4

Value

Answer 4

the lightness or darkness of overall colors schemes.

Question 5

Tones

Answer 5

created by adding gray to a color, making it duller than the original.

Question 6

Shades

Answer 6

created by adding black to a color, making it darker than the original.

Question 7

Tint

Answer 7

created by adding white to a color, making it lighter than the original.

Question 8

Achromatic

Answer 8

Often used to create a clean, minimalist look, an achromatic color scheme exclusively uses black, white, and shades of grey.

Question 9

Analogous

Answer 9

Analogous colors sit directly next to one another on the color wheel and can be very effective in creating a calm, serene feeling

Question 10

Color Blindness

Answer 10

Decreased ability to see color or differences in color.

Question 11

Color Space

Answer 11

A color space is a specific organization of colors. In combination with color profiling supported by various physical devices, it supports reproducible representations of color – whether such representation entails an analog or a digital representation

Question 12

Complementary Colors

Answer 12

Are two colors that sit directly across from each other on the color wheel.

Question 13

Deuteranopia / Deuteranomoly

Answer 13

A type of red-green color blindness characterized by the inability to distinguish red and green pigments (around 5% of all males)

Question 14

High-Key Image

Answer 14

Image’s dominant values are white and bright tints of colors

Question 15

Key

Answer 15

Refers to the predominant values in an entire image.

Question 16

Low-Key Image

Answer 16

Image’s dominant values are black and dark shades of colors

Question 17

Mid-Key Image

Answer 17

Highlights and shadows are both balanced and neither is too much more dominant than the other

Question 18

Monochromatic

Answer 18

A monochromatic color scheme takes one hue and creates a design based on different tints, tones, and shares of the hue

Question 19

Protanopia / Protanomaly

Answer 19

Blindness to red. A state in which the red cones are absent, leaving only the cones that absorb blue and green light (around 2.5% of all males

Question 20

Split-Complimentary

Answer 20

Split-complementary color scheme uses one base color and two additional colors that are adjacent to the base color’s complement.

Question 21

Tetradic

Answer 21

This rectangular color scheme uses four colors broken into two complementary pairs

Question 22

Triad

Answer 22

Draw a triangle on the wheel and you’ll hit on three colors equally spaced apart. For instance, purple, orange, and green (the secondary colors)

Question 23

Tritanopia

Answer 23

A condition where a person cannot distinguish between blue and yellow colors. Tritanopia: Less than 0.3% of women and men