Color Theory

5. A color's position in the visual spectrum; it is the name of a color such as red, green, etc.
6. The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is thelightest value; black is the darkest. The value halfwaybetween these extremes is called middle gray
9. having a single color (can be various values of that color)
13. Those hues exactly opposite one another on a color wheel. When complements are mixed, the result is a neutral color ex. Red and Green or Blue and Orange
14. Changing a hue by adding black to it

1. Red, yellow, and blue- this is the subtractive system
2. These colors are created by mixing two of the primaries red+yellow= orange (orange,violet, green)
3. The warmth or coolness a color suggests in relation to other colors ex. Green, blue and violet are cool colors
4. A group of similar colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel ex. blue, blue-green, green
7. These colors are created by mixing a primary with a secondary color.
8. The property of color that measures the brilliance of a hue. It is sometimes referred to as chroma or saturation
10. Changing a hue by adding white to it
11. Create only effects of darkness and lightness as in black, white and gray
12. Changing a hue by adding gray to it