Color Theory Flashcards
Developed the first color wheel
Sir Isaac Newton
A body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual effects of a specific color combination
Color Theory
The color itself as the eye perceives
Hue
The amount of light energy emitted or reflected from an object in a specific direction.
Luminance
Lightness or darkness of a color
Value
Intensity/purity of hue
Saturation
When colors are added together they produce white
Additive Colors
When colors are added together they produce black. This system is used for printing, photography and painting
Subtractive Colors
Brilliance or dullness of any color
Chroma
3-4 adjacent hues in the color wheel
Analogous Color Scheme
A single color and its varying value of hue
Monochromatic Color Scheme
Colors exactly opposite from each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Color Scheme
Adjacent two colors of the direct opposite
Split Complementary
A combination of equidistant tertiary shades that form a triangle on the color wheel.
Triadic Color Scheme
A color scheme that is absent of color, only using shades of black, white and gray
Achromatic Color Scheme
Colors cannot be created by combining other colors
Primary Colors
Colors are created by combining primary colors
Secondary Colors
Created by mixing a primary and secondary shade on the color wheel
Tertiary Colors
Refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased
After Image
This combination is created by first picking a color and then finding one colors touching the first color’s complement.
Clash Color Scheme
Authority on color, provider of color systems and leading technology for accurate communication of color.
Pantone
Choice of colors used in design for a range of media.
Color Scheme
Claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance “energy” lacking from a person’s body
Chroma Therapy
A phenomenon where the hue is dependent on concentration and/or thickness of the absorbing substance.
Dichromatism
Perceiving letters and numbers will lead to the unusual additional experiences of seeing colors.
Synesthesia
Hue + White
Tint
Hue + Grey
Tone
Hue + Black
Shade
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.
Simultaneous contrast
Screening; tiny dots of each primary color are printed in a pattern small enough that human beings perceive a solid color
Half-toning
A subtractive color model, used in color printing
CMYK color model
An additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors
RGB color model
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
Optical Color Mixing
Illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.
Optical Illusion
most well known color vision deficiency test all around the world
Ishihara Color Blindness Test
CMYK stands for
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)
RGB stands for
Red, Green, Blue
DPI stands for
Dots Per Inch
PPI stands for
Pixels Per Inch
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.
Willhelm Ostwald
He associated colours with the four elements: fire, water, earth and air
Aristotle
19th C. French chemist who developed a colour system that became the heart of pointillism and neo-impressionism.
Chevreul
Developed a three dimensional colour sphere to demonstrate the harmony of colours.
Phillip Otto Runge
Created a system for specifying colors arranged in three orderly scales of uniform visual steps according to hue, chroma, and value, developed in 1898
Albert Munsell
A period in history that uses pastel colors
Rococo
In 1810, he published Theory of Colors, his treatise on the nature, function, and psychology of colors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Developed a chart in the form of a triangle from his studies of the electromagnetic theory of light.
Sir James Clerk Maxwell
He theorized seven types of color contrast and devised exercises to teach them
Johannes Itten
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
Wassily Kandisky
