Color Wheel

Intermediate color

A color that is created by mixing a primary color with a secondary color. Examples: yellow-green, red-orange.

color scheme

A pleasing combination of colors based on their respective positions on the color wheel.

shade

Adding black to a color.

complementary colors

Colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red/green, blue/orange, etc.

warm color

Colors on one half of the color wheel that seem warm - red, orange, and yellow. Remind us of heat.

cool colors

Colors that are associated with the sky, air, water or grass. These colors makes our picture look cool in temperature and makes it look calm. Blue, green and purple.

analogous color

Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

value

Darkness or lightness of a color or tone

monochromatic

Different tints and shades of one color (hue). A color scheme that uses only one hue and the tints, tones, and shades of that hue.

secondary color

In traditional color theory, green, orange and purple are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors in equal parts.

neutrals

Not associated with any single color from color wheel. Blacks, whites, grays, and browns

primary colors

Pure or fundamental colors (red, yellow, and blue) that cannot be created by combining other colors.

secondary triad

The three secondary colors on the color wheel (orange, green, and violet) which are equally spaced and form an equilateral triangle

blue-green

Yellow > yellow-green > green > ______________

blue

______ > blue-violet > Violet > red-violet > red

tone

a color mixed with grey

blue-violet

blue-green > blue > ____________ > violet

violet

blue-violet > _________ > red-violet

tint

created when white is added to a color

The 3 secondary colors

orange, green, violet

orange

red > red-orange > _________ > yellow- orange

The 3 primary colors

red, yellow, blue

yellow-green

red-orange > orange > yellow-orange > yellow > ___________

primary triad

the three primary colors on the color wheel (red, yellow, and blue), which are equally spaced and form an equilateral triangle

red

violet > red-violet > _______

The 6 intermediate colors

yellow-green, yellow-orange, blue-green, red- orange, blue- violet, red-violet