Colors Flashcards
What are the primary colors of pigment, or subtractive mixing?
Red, yellow, and blue
What are primary colors?
The three colors that cannot be mixed from other colors
What are the primary colors of light, or additive mixing?
Red, green, and blue
What are secondary colors?
A mixture of two primary colors
What are intermediate colors?
A mixture of a secondary and primary color
What are tertiary colors?
A mixture of two secondary colors
What are neutrals?
Colors with no hue or intensity (black, white, gray)
What is tint?
A hue with white added
What is a shade?
A hue with black added
What is the local color of an object?
An object’s actual color, disregarding highlight and shadow colors
What are the three qualities of color?
Hue, intensity, and value
What is a hue?
The name of a color at its maximum intensity
What are two other words for intensity?
Chroma or saturation
What is intensity?
A measure of the brightness or strength of a color
What is value?
The lightness or darkness of a color
