Chapter 7 -- Color Flashcards
color created by mixing a number of different light colors, with shades of red, green, and blue
Additive Color
mixing of a limited set of dyes, inks, paint pigments or natural colorants to create a wider range of colors
Subtractive Color
Three colors spaced an equal distance apart on the color wheel forming an equilateral triangle. The twelve-color wheel is made up of a primary triad, a secondary triad and two intermediate triads.
Color Triad
The hues from which all others can be mixed. These are preliminary hues that cannot be broken down or reduced into component colors.
Primary Color
Hues made by mixing two primary colors.
Secondary Color
A color produced by a mixture of a primary color and a secondary color.
Intermediate Color
Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
Complimentary Colors
A color and the two colors on either side of its
compliment.
Split-Complimentary
The band of individual colors that results when a beam of white light is broken into its component wavelengths, iden9fiable as hues.
Spectrum
Black, white or gray; a non-chromaHc hue.
Neutral
The effect of adding white to a hue.
Tint
The effect of adding black to a hue.
Shade
The relaHve purity of a color- also called Intensity or Chroma
Saturation
Any color that has a value level of middle gray or lighter
High-Key Color
Any color that has a value level of middle gray or darker
Low-Key Color
A color scheme based on one hue. This includes the range of values within that hue.
Monochromatic
The name given to a color to describe its locaHon on the color spectrum
based upon its wavelength.
Hue
The degree of lightness or darkness in a color.
Value
Powdered coloring materials used to give hues to paints and inks.
Pigment
Hues that lie adjacent (next to each other) on the color wheel.
Analogous
The color as seen in the objecHve world. The color sensaHon received from a nearby object under average lighHng condiHons.
Local Color
