Colors Flashcards

1
Q
Designating color having high lightness and low saturation.
A. Deep
B. Dark
C. Brilliant 
D. Pale
A

Pale

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q
Designating a color having a low lightness and strong saturation.
A. Deep
B. Dark
C. Brilliant 
D. Pale
A

A.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q
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
A

B.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q
Designating a color having a high lightness and strong saturation.
A. Deep
B. Dark
C. Brilliant 
D. Pale
A

C.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

A color produced by combining cyan, yellow and magenta pigments.

A

Black - Subtractive color

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

A color produced by combining lights of red, green and blue wavelengths.

A

White - Additive Color

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

A scale of achromatic colors having several usually ten equal gradations raging from white to black.

A

Gray scale

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

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.

A

Optical mixing

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

The dimension of a color that is correlated with luminance.

A

Brightness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The degree by which a color appears to reflect more or less incident light, corresponding to lightness of the perceived color.

A

Value

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

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.

A

Lightness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

The purity or vividness of a hue. Also called intensity.

A

Saturation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

The property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red , yellow, green, etc.

Name of colors.

A

Hue

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The degree by which color differs from a gray of the same lightness or brightness, corresponding to saturation of the perceived color.

A

Chroma

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

A system for specifying colors arranged in three orderly scales of uniform visual steps according to hue , chroma, and value.

A

Munsell System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A

Spectrum

17
Q

A warm color that appears to move toward an observer, giving an illusion of space.

A

Advancing colors

18
Q

A cool color appears to move away from an observer, giving an illusion of space.

A

Receding color

19
Q

How many colors in the color wheel? Name them.

A
  1. Yellow
  2. Yellow Orange
  3. Orange
  4. Red Orange
  5. Red
  6. Red Violet
  7. Violet
  8. Blue Violet
  9. Blue
  10. Blue Green
    11 Green
  11. Yellow Green
20
Q

An arrangement or pattern of colors conceived as forming an integrated whole.

A

Color scheme

21
Q

A combination of one color and the pair of colors adjoining it’s complementary color on color wheel.

A

Split complentary

22
Q

A combination of two analogous colors and complementary colors on color wheel.

A

Double complementary

23
Q

Having one color or exhibiting varying intensities and value of a single hue.

A

Monochromatic

24
Q

Having exhibiting a variety of colors.

A

Polychromatic

25
Q

Having no saturation and therefore no hue, such as white , black and gray.

A

Achromatic

26
Q

An achromatic color between white and black.

A

Gray

27
Q

An intermediate value of color between tint and shade.

Could be done by adding gray or neutral colors to it.

A

Tone

28
Q

A diagram developed by Fabre Birren to describe the relationship between a pure hue, white and black.

A

Color triangle