3A-Color-Images

Warm Colors

... Colors that are mostly made of red, orange, and yellow. They are called warm because they remind us of warm things like the sun or fire.

Contrast

... put in opposition to show or emphasize differences, 2. the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

Color-Hue

... the name of a color, visual property of an object dependant on a combination of reflected and absorbed light from the spectrum

Complimentary Colors

..., Colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. They create a muddy color when mixed.

Cool Colors

..., Colors that suggest coolness & are dominated by blues, greens, violets & blue-reds

Tertiary Colors

..., These are colors created by combining a primary color and a secondary color. They are yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange and yellow-orange.

Primary Colors

..., Three colors from which all other colors originate. They are red, blue and yellow.

Achromatic Colors

..., Without color. Black, white, grey (incl. silver & gold). Considered neutrals. They never appear on the color wheel. Not part of the color spectrum.

Neutral Colors

..., beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, and white

Triad Color Harmony

..., incorporates the use of THREE hues that are THREE spaces apart on the color wheel

Palette

...A thin piece of glass, wood or other material, or pad of paper, which is used to hold the paint to be used in painting; also, the range of colors used by a particular painter

tint

...a hue with white added. Pink is a tint of red.

Secondary Colors

...green, purple, and orange. These three colors are derived from mixing equal amounts of two of the three primary colors (see illustration).

Color Wheel

...red, yellow, and blue. With these three colors (and black and white) all other colors can be made. The primary colors themselves can not be made by mixing other colors (see illustration).

Monochromatic

a color scheme limited to variations of one hue, a hue with its tints and/or shades....

tone

a hue which is dulled by adding grey or its compliment

Analogous Color

any set of three or five colors that are closely related in hue(s). They are usually adjacent (next) to each other on the color wheel....

saturation

brightness or dullness of a hue; the strength of a color, intensity

Intensity

chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue

visible spectrum

colors that are seen with the human eye (ROYGBIV)

Value

lightness and darkness of color