Color Wheel

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  1. 1. complementary color harmony -a trio of hues, consisting of a hue and the two hues on either side of its direct complement. An example would be violet with yellow-orange, and yellow-green. Many restaurants use a split-complementary color scheme.
  2. 6. a hue which has been darkened by the addition of black. E.g., navy is a shade of blue.
  3. 8. color harmony-a color harmony featuring adjacent hues on the color wheel, incorporating no more than one primary color. The group of adjacent colors forms an angle of up to 90 degrees on the color wheel. One color usually dominates. The most realistic depiction of colors as they occur in nature as well as interior environments, also one of the most harmonious and pleasing of all. An example of an analogous color scheme would be using green, blue-green, and yellow-green, with green dominating.
  4. 11. color harmony - a multicolored grouping of many hues which may otherwise be unrelated.
  5. 13. color an achromatic color to which a small amount of hue has been added.
  6. 14. a substance used to provide color to paints, dyes, plastics, and other materials.
  7. 16. colors red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange are situated between primary and secondary colors and are made from mixing the two. Primary color is always listed first with a hyphen in the center of the word.
  8. 17. a hue which has been lightened by the addition of white. E.g., pink is a tint of red
  9. 18. the degree of strength, intensity, saturation or purity of a color. If you visualized a painting, it would be the amount of pigment used to mix in the paint to make it a certain color. More pigment would make it brighter; less would make the color duller. Chroma describes the amount of brightness or dullness of a color whereas value describes the amount of black, white, or gray added to the color.
  10. 20. color harmony-a grouping of four hues which are equidistant on the color wheel.
  11. 24. color harmony-a grouping of different values of one hue, and which may include achromatic colors. An example would be a color scheme using pink (red+white), mauve (red+gray), red, burgundy (red+black), and/or black, white or gray.
  12. 27. the visual response of the eye to reflected rays of light. An element of design, color has three dimensions, hue, value and chroma.
  13. 28. the lightness or darkness of a hue, relative to the gray scale, achieved by the addition of black, white, or gray.
  14. 29. colors (also known as aggressive or warm)-colors that are predominantly composed of red or yellow and seem to visually move forward toward the viewer.
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  1. 2. colors red, yellow, and blue—are spaced equidistantly apart on the color chart and cannot be created by mixing any other colors together.
  2. 3. the descriptive name of color. Hue defines a specific spot on the color wheel. Hues are pure color without black, white, or gray added to them.
  3. 4. the measure of the brightness of a color, describing the amount of light reflecting from it. The greater the saturation of color, the higher the chroma.
  4. 5. scale a visual aid which represents the transitional graduations of value from white to black, encompassing all the varying degrees of gray.
  5. 7. a hue which has been muted by the addition of gray, often resulting in a dull or dusty appearance.
  6. 9. reflects the maximum amount of light back to the viewer’s eye, and is not mixed with black, white, or gray.
  7. 10. harmonies—groupings of specific hues and/or different values of a hue, resulting in a pleasing or useful combination. Color harmonies may display different values of the given hue and still be (i.e. pink and mint green) considered complementary color harmony. White, black and gray –being achromatic, can be legitimately included in any color harmony without disrupting it.
  8. 12. wheel twelve hour color system which was developed by Louis Prang, an American Printer in 1876.
  9. 15. color harmony -a grouping of three hues which are equidistant on the color wheel. An example would be the primary colors red, blue and yellow. An interesting triadic color harmony used often in baby designing would be pink, baby blue, and soft yellow. Changing the value does not change the color harmony.
  10. 19. colors neutral colors which lack hue: white, black, and any values of gray and they do not appear on the color wheel.
  11. 21. colors orange, green and violet—are created by mixing two primary colors and are placed in between primary colors.
  12. 22. color harmony- a pair of hues directly opposite each other on the color wheel. Some examples would be red and green, violet and yellow, or blue and orange. Many schools select their colors from a complementary color harmony.
  13. 23. color harmony-a grouping of colors without hue; white, black, and any values of gray.
  14. 25. colors-(also known as passive or cool)-colors that are predominantly composed of blues or greens. Receding colors seem to visually pull back from the viewer.
  15. 26. colors colors derived from the visible spectrum and characterized by the presence of both hue and chroma, all colors other than black, white or gray.