COLORS Flashcards
Triangular tips in between red
and yellow. yellow and blue,
blue and red or orange, green
and violet.
SECONDARY
COLORS
Triangular tips of red and yellow
and blue in the color wheel
PRIMARY
COLORS
Color opposite each other in the
color wheel
COMPLIMENTARY
COLORS
A character expressive of definite conceptions, like grandeur, gaiety or solemnity like a beer garden using indigenous and ubiquitous materials.
STYLE
An adjective used to descr~be an artist who selects forms and ideas of different periods and combmes them to produce a harmonious whole.
ECLECTIC
BUILDINGS
The reds and yellows lead to
advance toward the observer
usually used for wide rooms to
make it smaller (fire, sunlight).
WARM COLORS
Color next each other in the
color wheel
ANALOGOUS
COLORS
The relative lightness or darkness of a color
VALUE
Degree of darkness of a color
Shade
Transmits the feeling of positivity, confidence, and security.
It is often used in commercial and business spaces, such as banking agencies, offices and companies.
Used in hospitals, mixed with white or light green.
Blue
it has the highest reflective level of all colors
Portrays optimism, curiosity, joviality and a bright atmosphere.
Used in institutional buildings like school.
Yellow
- Warmest hue
- Used throughout history as a sacred religious color
in many cultures
This color shows energy, excitement, impulse.
Therefore, it is regularly used in commercial spaces, such as stores or fast food outlets, as it portrays a certain compulsivity and consumer desire.
Red
Evokes calm, tranquility, serenity and well-being.
It is regularly used in spaces associated with health and well-being, such as hospitals and relaxation centers.
Green
- The result of the combination of yellow and red
- projects an idea of intensity, creativity, euphoria, and enthusiasm.
- It is often used in creative environments, such as offices, studios, and schools. If used together with blue, it conveys the idea of impulsivity and trust, and so is adopted by banking agencies and offices.
Orange
It transmits well-being, calmness, and softness.
Violet
the color name
Hue
One of the three dimensions of color: the purity or vividness of a hue. Also called intensity.
Saturation
determined by whether or not
a color has been mixed with another color and if so, to
what degree.
Purity
- Absorbs most color.
- portrays night, power, fear, death
- Used in commercial and corporate building in western countries.
BLACK
- A ‘good’color. It reflects most of the color.
- portrays purity, cleanliness, ghosts, sterility.
- Used mostly on any building especially on
institutional buildings also.
the relationship of
colors that work well together.
Color harmony
Use a single color of low chroma
in one value or very limited
range of values.
MONOTONE (NEUTRAL)
Is made from the various tones, shades, and tints that are surprisingly possible within a single color.
MONOCHROMATIC COLOR SCHEME
A phenomenon of light and visual perception that may be describe in terms of an individual’s perception of hue, saturation, and lightness for objects, and hue, saturation, and brightness for light sources.
Color
An intermediate value of color between a tint and a shade.
Tone
An achromatic color between white and black.
Gray
Having no saturation and therefore no hue, as white, black, or gray.
Achromatic
Having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
Polychromatic
The degree by which a color differs from a gray of the same lightness or brightness, corresponding to saturation of the perceive color.
Chroma
