colour 🎀

Question 1

hue is another word for

Answer 1

colour

Question 2

what’s the value of a colour

Answer 2

-the lightness or darkness of a colour

Question 3

how is a tint produced

Answer 3

-when white is added to a hue

Question 4

when is a shade produced

Answer 4

when black is added to a colour

Question 5

what’s intensity

Answer 5

-the brightness or dullness of a colour usually formed by mixing a hue with its complement

Question 6

what chroma

Answer 6

refers to the purity or intensity of a colour

Question 7

what’s tone

Answer 7

-similar to value
-adding grey to a colour

Question 8

what are the primary colours

Answer 8

-blue
-red
-yellow
cannot be made by combining colours

Question 9

secondary colours

Answer 9

formed by combining two primary colours

Question 10

what are tertiary or intermediate colours

Answer 10

-formed by combing a primary colour with a secondary colour

Question 11

what are the neutral colours

Answer 11

-black
-white
-grey

Question 12

what’s a complementary colour

Answer 12

-a colour that is directly opposite a particular colour on the colour wheel

Question 13

what are the three main properties of colour

Answer 13

-hue
-saturation
-value

Question 14

what’s hue

Answer 14

the name given to the colours

Question 15

describe value

Answer 15

adding brightness or darkness to a colour
-more white = higher value
-more black = lower value

Question 16

describe the intensity of a colour

Answer 16

refers to the purity of a colour
higher intensity = brighter and purer
lower intensity = darker (by adding grey or a complement of that hue to the colour)

Question 17

what are the warm colours

Answer 17

-red and yellow
-associated with sun and fire = warmth
-happiness and excitement
-has the effect of making objects appear to advance so they seem closer and larger

Question 18

what are the cool colours

Answer 18

-blue, purple, green
-associated with water, sky, ice = coolness
-creates a calm and restful effect = relaxing colours
-effect of making objects to recede so they seem further away and smaller

Question 19

who developed the first colour wheel

Answer 19

sir isaac newton in 1666

Question 20

what are colour combination also known as

Answer 20

harmonies
(two or more colours are used together)

Question 21

what are related colour combinations

Answer 21

-harmonies use colours that are found close to each other on the colour wheel

Question 22

what are the two types of related colour combinations

Answer 22

-monochromatic colour- uses different fonts and shades of a single colour eg: light green, green, dark green
-analogous- two or three colours that are situated side by side on the colour wheel eg: green, blue green, blue

Question 23

what are the five contrasting colour combinations

Answer 23

-a complementary colour scheme- uses two colours that lie opposite each other

-double complementary- uses two colours that lie next to each other as well as the two colours that lie directly opposite them (orange and red orange are used with blue and blue green)

a split complementary- uses one colour together with two colours that lie on either side of its complement (orange with blue-purple and blue-green)

-a double split complementary- uses two colours that lie on either side of a colour together with their complements

-triadic colour complementary- uses three colours that would be found at each point of the triangle