Color & Contrast Flashcards
Hue
the primary value of a color and how the color red, green, blue, purple, etc. is perceived through the eye.
Chroma
the purity of a color (a high chroma has no added black, white or gray).
Saturation
a comparative measure for the intensity of a color (usually compared to the highest chroma, purest color).
Value
the lightness or darkness of overall colors schemes.
Tones
created by adding gray to a color, making it duller than the original.
Shades
created by adding black to a color, making it darker than the original.
Tint
created by adding white to a color, making it lighter than the original.
Achromatic
Often used to create a clean, minimalist look, an achromatic color scheme exclusively uses black, white, and shades of grey.
Analogous
Analogous colors sit directly next to one another on the color wheel and can be very effective in creating a calm, serene feeling
Color Blindness
Decreased ability to see color or differences in color.
Color Space
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
Complementary Colors
Are two colors that sit directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Deuteranopia / Deuteranomoly
A type of red-green color blindness characterized by the inability to distinguish red and green pigments (around 5% of all males)
High-Key Image
Image’s dominant values are white and bright tints of colors
Key
Refers to the predominant values in an entire image.
Low-Key Image
Image’s dominant values are black and dark shades of colors
Mid-Key Image
Highlights and shadows are both balanced and neither is too much more dominant than the other
Monochromatic
A monochromatic color scheme takes one hue and creates a design based on different tints, tones, and shares of the hue
Protanopia / Protanomaly
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
Split-Complimentary
Split-complementary color scheme uses one base color and two additional colors that are adjacent to the base color’s complement.
Tetradic
This rectangular color scheme uses four colors broken into two complementary pairs
Triad
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)
Tritanopia
A condition where a person cannot distinguish between blue and yellow colors. Tritanopia: Less than 0.3% of women and men
