Unit 2: Part D - Color Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. hues located next to one another on the color wheel (_______ color)
  2. 5. any pure or nameable color
  3. 6. the addition of white to a hue, resulting in a lighter color than what was started with
  4. 8. the addition of black to a hue, resulting in a darker color than what was started with.
  5. 10. hues on the color wheel ranging from green to purple (_______ color)
  6. 12. the three hues that define the points of a triangle when looking at the color wheel (_______ color)
  7. 13. the color of reflected light; as light strikes a surface (ink, paint, etc.), certain wavelengths are absorbed while others are reflected back at the viewer (_______ color)
  8. 14. in four-color printing, cyan, magenta, and yellow printing plates are carefully aligned with the black plate
Down
  1. 1. hues located opposite one another on the color wheel (_______ color)
  2. 2. hues on the color wheel ranging from red to yellow (_______ color)
  3. 4. the relative intensity or purity of a hue
  4. 7. the two hues to either side of any hue’s direct complement (_______-complementary color)
  5. 9. the color that is produced by anything that emits light (the Sun, a computer screen, a movie projector, etc.); white is the combination of all of the colors, and black the absence of color (_______ color)
  6. 11. any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing (_______ color)