Color
Is a property of light, is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
Hues
Pure color-one without tint or shade. An element of the color wheel.
Value
Is the relative lightness or darkness of a color.
[The lightness or darkness of a color in relation to a scale ranging from white to black.]
Temperature
Perceived warmness or coolness of a color.
Saturation
Intensity or purity of a color. The vividness and intensity of a color is represented by _________.
Tints
A color is made lighter by adding white.
Shades
Black is added, the darker version of the color.
Darker values of a color
Tones
Gray is added
[A hue mixed with either a small quantity of gray or the complement of the hue, resulting in dulling the hue.]
Prismatic Colors
Colors that can be seen when white light goes through a prism. Ex.: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (rainbow hues).
Chroma
The quality of a color's purity, intensity or saturation.
Chromatic colors
Any color in which one particular hue predominates.
Chromatic grey
Colors that are creates by adding some black, white, grey or the compliment of the hue or combination of those.
Achromatic
No color, is completely greyscale
Muted colors
Colors that have a lack of vibrancy or saturation. Think earthtones: grays, browns, tans, coppers.
Harmonies
Created by picking colors from the wheel according to predefined schemes, such as Analogous, Complementary, or Triad.
Complementary color scheme
Colors directly across.
Colors that are opposite each other on color wheel
Split-Complementary color scheme
Is a variation of the complementary. In addition to the base color, it uses two colors adjacent to its complement.
[Three colors that form a Isosceles Triangle on the color wheel.]
Triadic color scheme
Uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.
[3 colors that form an Equilateral Triangle on color wheel.]
Analogous color scheme
Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Rectangle (tetradic) color scheme
Four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.
Square color scheme
Similar to the rectangle but all four colors are spaced evenly around the color wheel.
Color temperature
The color wheel can be divided into warm and cool colors.
Simultaneous contrast
The colors off two different objects affect each other.
[When two colors come into contact, the contrast intensifies the difference between them.]
The Bezold effect
Named after a German professor of meteorology.
Optical illusion: colors may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors.
Subtractive Colors
When we mix colors using paint pigments.
Additive Colors
They are created with light. when we use computers or screens
Color
Is a property of light, is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
Hues
Pure color-one without tint or shade. An element of the color wheel.
Value
Is the relative lightness or darkness of a color.
[The lightness or darkness of a color in relation to a scale ranging from white to black.]
Temperature
Perceived warmness or coolness of a color.
Saturation
Intensity or purity of a color. The vividness and intensity of a color is represented by _________.
Tints
A color is made lighter by adding white.
Shades
Black is added, the darker version of the color.
Darker values of a color
Tones
Gray is added
[A hue mixed with either a small quantity of gray or the complement of the hue, resulting in dulling the hue.]
Prismatic Colors
Colors that can be seen when white light goes through a prism. Ex.: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (rainbow hues).
Chroma
The quality of a color's purity, intensity or saturation.
Chromatic colors
Any color in which one particular hue predominates.
Chromatic grey
Colors that are creates by adding some black, white, grey or the compliment of the hue or combination of those.
Achromatic
No color, is completely greyscale
Muted colors
Colors that have a lack of vibrancy or saturation. Think earthtones: grays, browns, tans, coppers.
Harmonies
Created by picking colors from the wheel according to predefined schemes, such as Analogous, Complementary, or Triad.
Complementary color scheme
Colors directly across.
Colors that are opposite each other on color wheel
Split-Complementary color scheme
Is a variation of the complementary. In addition to the base color, it uses two colors adjacent to its complement.
[Three colors that form a Isosceles Triangle on the color wheel.]
Triadic color scheme
Uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.
[3 colors that form an Equilateral Triangle on color wheel.]
Analogous color scheme
Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Rectangle (tetradic) color scheme
Four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.
Square color scheme
Similar to the rectangle but all four colors are spaced evenly around the color wheel.
Color temperature
The color wheel can be divided into warm and cool colors.
Simultaneous contrast
The colors off two different objects affect each other.
[When two colors come into contact, the contrast intensifies the difference between them.]
The Bezold effect
Named after a German professor of meteorology.
Optical illusion: colors may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors.
Subtractive Colors
When we mix colors using paint pigments.
Additive Colors
They are created with light. when we use computers or screens