wut Flashcards
Additive vs. subtractive color?
Additive is colors made by lights. When mixed, become lighter in value. Subtractive- Colors made by pigments. When mixed, become darker in value.
Meaning of analogous
Neighboring 3 colors
What’s the material in paint that serves to create the actual color?
Pigment
Who invented color star?
Johannes Itten
Meaning of contrast
Difference in value
With contrast of extension, what degree of color contrast can one get?
A metric fuckton, like Y and P, B and O, etc
What is the relative purity of a color?
Saturation, or Intensity.
What is the expressive nature of a color?
Color Symbolism.
Isaac Newton used a prism to discover…
The visible spectrum.
Meaning of tetradic
Creates a rectangle or square
What are the three attributes of color?
Hue, value, saturation.
Meaning of neutral
Fall into earth tone, muted, made from complements
Afterimage?
The illusion of color and shape after staring at at a color or shape for a long time. It can appear as complementary or in the negative.
Meaning of tone
color and gray
The seven contrasts?
Value, Contrast of Hue, Contrast of Complements, Cold/Warm, Saturation, Extension, Simultaneous
