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Color Theory Flashcards

1
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Developed the first color wheel

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Sir Isaac Newton

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A body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual effects of a specific color combination

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Color Theory

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3
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The color itself as the eye perceives

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Hue

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4
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The amount of light energy emitted or reflected from an object in a specific direction.

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Luminance

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5
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Lightness or darkness of a color

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Value

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6
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Intensity/purity of hue

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Saturation

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7
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When colors are added together they produce white

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Additive Colors

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When colors are added together they produce black. This system is used for printing, photography and painting

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Subtractive Colors

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9
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Brilliance or dullness of any color

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Chroma

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10
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3-4 adjacent hues in the color wheel

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Analogous Color Scheme

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11
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A single color and its varying value of hue

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Monochromatic Color Scheme

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12
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Colors exactly opposite from each other on the color wheel.

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Complementary Color Scheme

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13
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Adjacent two colors of the direct opposite

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Split Complementary

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14
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A combination of equidistant tertiary shades that form a triangle on the color wheel.

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Triadic Color Scheme

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15
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A color scheme that is absent of color, only using shades of black, white and gray

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Achromatic Color Scheme

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16
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Colors cannot be created by combining other colors

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Primary Colors

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17
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Colors are created by combining primary colors

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Secondary Colors

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18
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Created by mixing a primary and secondary shade on the color wheel

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Tertiary Colors

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19
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Refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased

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After Image

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20
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This combination is created by first picking a color and then finding one colors touching the first color’s complement.

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Clash Color Scheme

21
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Authority on color, provider of color systems and leading technology for accurate communication of color.

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Pantone

22
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Choice of colors used in design for a range of media.

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Color Scheme

23
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Claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance “energy” lacking from a person’s body

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Chroma Therapy

24
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A phenomenon where the hue is dependent on concentration and/or thickness of the absorbing substance.

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Dichromatism

25
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Perceiving letters and numbers will lead to the unusual additional experiences of seeing colors.

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Synesthesia

26
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Hue + White

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Tint

27
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Hue + Grey

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Tone

28
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Hue + Black

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Shade

29
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Identified by Michel Eugène Chevreul refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. The effect is more noticeable when shared between objects of complementary color.

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Simultaneous contrast

30
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Screening; tiny dots of each primary color are printed in a pattern small enough that human beings perceive a solid color

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Half-toning

31
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A subtractive color model, used in color printing

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CMYK color model

32
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An additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors

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RGB color model

33
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The merging of juxtaposed dots or strokes of pure colors when seen from a distance to produce a hue often more luminous than that available from a premixed pigment

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Optical Color Mixing

34
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Illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

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Optical Illusion

35
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most well known color vision deficiency test all around the world

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Ishihara Color Blindness Test

36
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CMYK stands for

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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)

37
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RGB stands for

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Red, Green, Blue

38
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DPI stands for

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Dots Per Inch

39
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PPI stands for

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Pixels Per Inch

40
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He worked out another color circle that was based chiefly on how colors are perceived by the eyes and the brain rather than on the light or pigment mixtures in the world that we experience.

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Willhelm Ostwald

41
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He associated colours with the four elements: fire, water, earth and air

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Aristotle

42
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19th C. French chemist who developed a colour system that became the heart of pointillism and neo-impressionism.

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Chevreul

43
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Developed a three dimensional colour sphere to demonstrate the harmony of colours.

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Phillip Otto Runge

44
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Created a system for specifying colors arranged in three orderly scales of uniform visual steps according to hue, chroma, and value, developed in 1898

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Albert Munsell

45
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A period in history that uses pastel colors

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Rococo

46
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In 1810, he published Theory of Colors, his treatise on the nature, function, and psychology of colors.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

47
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Developed a chart in the form of a triangle from his studies of the electromagnetic theory of light.

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Sir James Clerk Maxwell

48
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He theorized seven types of color contrast and devised exercises to teach them

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Johannes Itten

49
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Russian painter best known for his bold, geometric abstract works.
Adopted a synesthetic relationship with color, associating particular colors with both specific geometric shapes and with musical tones and chords

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Wassily Kandisky

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