Color Theory Midterm Study Guide Flashcards
Primary Colors
Can be mixed to create all other colors.
What are the primary colors?
Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary Colors
Can be created by mixing the primary colors.
What are the secondary colors?
Purple, Green, Orange
Tertiary colors
Can be created by mixing primary and secondary colors.
What are the tertiary colors?
Red-Orange, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green, Yellow-Orange
Hue
The name of a color.
Saturation
The intensity or purity of a hue.
Value
The degree of lightness or darkness of a hue.
Shade
A hue produced by adding black.
Tint
A hue produced by adding white.
Tone
A hue produced by adding gray.
What are the warm colors?
Reds, Oranges, Yellows
What are the cool colors?
Purples, Blues, Greens
Monochromatic Scheme
Using one hue and adding white, black, or gray to create tints, tones, and shades.
Complementary Colors
Colors sitting across from each other on the color wheel.
Analogous Scheme
2-4 colors next to each other on the color wheel.
Triadic Scheme
3 colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.
Split-complementary Scheme
A base color and the 2 colors adjacent to its complementary color.
Tetradic Scheme
Four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.
Square Scheme
Four complementary colors evenly spaced around the color wheel.
Color Proportion
Refers to the impact of the relative quantity of a given hue or value used in color compositions.
Transparency
Allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.
Additive colors
Colors made by lights, which when mixed, became lighter in value.
Middle mixture
A color that results from mixing equal parts of two other colors and is then shown between these two “parents”.
Subtractive colors
Combination of pigments which results in darkened mixtures.
