2 - Color theory Flashcards
The scheme of orange and blue colors is called “ “
Orange and teal
Three important terms of color
Hue, Saturation, and Value
Also called color, tone, shade or tint
Hue
also called colorfulness
saturation
also called lightness
value
Who said “The eye is more atracted to a color than to a neutral image, the more saturated the color, the more attention it grabs”
Sharon Callahan
Two main different models of mixing colors:
RGB(additive color model, red, green and blue light are added together)
CMYK(subtractive pigment color model, used in color printing)
Color temperature is expressed in
Kelvins (K)
Daylight K
5000K
Overcast Sky K
6500K-7500K
Blue Sky K
8000K-12000K
Moonlight K
4000K
Warm White K
3000K
Extra Warm White K
2800K
Candle Light K
1800K
Some supervisors prefer to work with Kelvin to avoid unnatural colors, others prefers RGB.
Yeah
Six Color Schemes
Monologous, Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, Split Complementary, Tetradic
colors are all the colors of a single hue
Monochromatic
Complementary colors
colors are pairs of colors wich, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out bey producing a gray scale color like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors and are always opposite on the color wheel.
Split-complementary
variation of complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colorsadjacent to its complement. This color scheme has te same strong visual contrast as the complementary color scheme, but has less tension
Triadic colors
that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. Triadic color harmonies tend to be quite vibrant, even if you use pale or unsaturated versions of your hues.
pálido, ténue
pale
vibrante, vivo
vibrant
tetradic or Rectangle
is a combination of four colors that consist of two sets of complementary colors. These colors form a rectangle on the color wheel. The colors on the short side of the rectangle are spaced one color apart