2.01 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. colors: The colors from green through blue to violet on the color wheel. These colors remind us of water and sky. They seem to recede and are calming and soothing.
  2. 2. colors: The three hues red, yellow, and blue which form the foundation of the color wheel and from which all other hues are made.
  3. 3. colors: Hues created by mixing a primary hue and a secondary hue. The tertiary colors are red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.
  4. 6. harmony: Color combinations based on color wheel relationships which are widely considered to create pleasing and balanced color schemes.
  5. 7. colors: Hues located next to each other on the color wheel.
  6. 8. scheme (color story): A choice of colors to be used in combination.
  7. 9. “You may need to tone the hue orange if you plan to use it as a wall color.”
  8. 13. (achromatic): Colors with no hue; such as black, white, gray, brown, tan, ivory, beige.
  9. 15. colors: The colors from yellow through orange to red on the color wheel. These colors remind us of the sun and fire. They seem to advance and are energizing.
  10. 17. The pure color at the base of all variations of a color. For example, the hue blue is at the base of the color navy, while the hue orange is the base of peach. Hues are shown on the color wheel.
  11. 18. Lighter value of a hue created by adding white.
  12. 19. Describes the lightness or darkness of a color.
  13. 21. or Saturation: Describes the brightness or dullness of a color. Hues are at full intensity.
Down
  1. 1. colors: Hues located opposite each other on the color wheel.
  2. 4. Refers to only one color including its variations in value and intensity.
  3. 5. wheel: A diagram of the spectrum of hues in a continuous circle representing their relationship to each other.
  4. 10. (meh-TAM-er-izm): Occurs when a color appears different under one light source than it does under another.
  5. 11. The duller or desaturated version of a hue created by adding gray; to make a hue duller by adding gray.
  6. 12. example:
  7. 14. colors: Hues created by mixing two primary hues. They are: orange, violet (purple), green.
  8. 16. Darker value of a hue created by adding black.
  9. 20. “The color olive is a tone of the hue yellow-green.”