Color Theory Midterm Study Guide

Question 1

Primary Colors

Answer 1

Can be mixed to create all other colors.

Question 2

What are the primary colors?

Answer 2

Red, Blue, Yellow

Question 3

Secondary Colors

Answer 3

Can be created by mixing the primary colors.

Question 4

What are the secondary colors?

Answer 4

Purple, Green, Orange

Question 5

Tertiary colors

Answer 5

Can be created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

Question 6

What are the tertiary colors?

Answer 6

Red-Orange, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green, Yellow-Orange

Question 7

Hue

Answer 7

The name of a color.

Question 8

Saturation

Answer 8

The intensity or purity of a hue.

Question 9

Value

Answer 9

The degree of lightness or darkness of a hue.

Question 10

Shade

Answer 10

A hue produced by adding black.

Question 11

Tint

Answer 11

A hue produced by adding white.

Question 12

Tone

Answer 12

A hue produced by adding gray.

Question 13

What are the warm colors?

Answer 13

Reds, Oranges, Yellows

Question 14

What are the cool colors?

Answer 14

Purples, Blues, Greens

Question 15

Monochromatic Scheme

Answer 15

Using one hue and adding white, black, or gray to create tints, tones, and shades.

Question 16

Complementary Colors

Answer 16

Colors sitting across from each other on the color wheel.

Question 17

Analogous Scheme

Answer 17

2-4 colors next to each other on the color wheel.

Question 18

Triadic Scheme

Answer 18

3 colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.

Question 19

Split-complementary Scheme

Answer 19

A base color and the 2 colors adjacent to its complementary color.

Question 20

Tetradic Scheme

Answer 20

Four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.

Question 21

Square Scheme

Answer 21

Four complementary colors evenly spaced around the color wheel.

Question 22

Color Proportion

Answer 22

Refers to the impact of the relative quantity of a given hue or value used in color compositions.

Question 23

Transparency

Answer 23

Allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.

Question 24

Additive colors

Answer 24

Colors made by lights, which when mixed, became lighter in value.

Question 25

Middle mixture

Answer 25

A color that results from mixing equal parts of two other colors and is then shown between these two “parents”.

Question 26

Subtractive colors

Answer 26

Combination of pigments which results in darkened mixtures.