Colors Flashcards
Designating color having high lightness and low saturation. A. Deep B. Dark C. Brilliant D. Pale
Pale
Designating a color having a low lightness and strong saturation. A. Deep B. Dark C. Brilliant D. Pale
A.
Designating a color having low lightness and low saturation and reflecting only a small fraction of incident light. A. Deep B. Dark C. Brilliant D. Pale
B.
Designating a color having a high lightness and strong saturation. A. Deep B. Dark C. Brilliant D. Pale
C.
A color produced by combining cyan, yellow and magenta pigments.
Black - Subtractive color
A color produced by combining lights of red, green and blue wavelengths.
White - Additive Color
A scale of achromatic colors having several usually ten equal gradations raging from white to black.
Gray scale
The merging of juxtaposed dots of pure colors when seen from distance to produce a hue often more luminous than that available from a premixed pigment.
Optical mixing
The dimension of a color that is correlated with luminance.
Brightness
The degree by which a color appears to reflect more or less incident light, corresponding to lightness of the perceived color.
Value
The dimension of colors by which an object appears to reflect more or less of the incident light, varying from black to white for surface colors and from black to colorless for transparent volume colors.
Lightness
The purity or vividness of a hue. Also called intensity.
Saturation
The property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red , yellow, green, etc.
Name of colors.
Hue
The degree by which color differs from a gray of the same lightness or brightness, corresponding to saturation of the perceived color.
Chroma
A system for specifying colors arranged in three orderly scales of uniform visual steps according to hue , chroma, and value.
Munsell System