Colour Theory Flashcards
What are the Primary Colours?
Red, Blue, Yellow
What are Secondary Colours?
The primary colours when mixed together create green, orange and purple.
What are Tertiary Colours?
The tertiary colors are a combination of primary and secondary colours, there are six in total, Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet and Red-Violet.
What is the Traditional Colour Wheel?
This colours create the traditional colour wheel. Created by Sir Isaac Newton.
What are the Four main qualities of a Colour wheel?
Hue, Saturation, Value and Temperature
What is Hue?
This is the colour position around the wheel and the brightest, purest version of each colour. For example, blue is hue and blue-violet is a hue of blue and violet.
What is Saturation?
How vibrant a colour is. A desaturated colour is greyed out and dull. While a saturated colour is vibrant and strong.
What is Value?
How dark or light a colour is.
You can make shades of colour while adding black and tints of colour while adding white. Also you can add tones to a colour while adding grey.
What are Temperature?
A colour wheel can be split in to two. Warm colours and cold colours.
What are Monochromatic Colours?
This takes one colour and uses shades, tones and tints to create a group of colours.
What are Complementary Colours?
This takes two colours from the opposite sides from the colour wheel.
What are Split-Complementary Colours?
This takes two colours oppisite from the colour wheel and splits one of them into two nearby colours.
What are Tetradic Colours?
Use three colours that are evenly spaced on the colour wheel.
What are Triadic Colours?
Are four colours in a rectangular formation on a colour wheel. Or are made of two sets of complementary colours.
What are Analogous Colours?
This uses two to four colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel.
