Color And Space Vocab Quiz

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Color Wheel

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It is the organization and placement of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors that form a circle or wheel.

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Hue

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The chromatic attribute of a color. It is the technical name for chroma or color.

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Primary Hues

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RED, YELLOW, & BLUE. Called primary because you cannot mix colors to get these colors and all other colors come from mixing these three hues

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Secondary Hues

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ORANGE, GREEN, VIOLET. From mixing equal amounts of two primary hues

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Tertiary Hues

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From mixing a primary with a secondary hue

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Complementary Hues

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Any two hues that are opposite eachother on the color wheel

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Split-Complement

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A color and the two colors on either side of its complement color

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Neutral Hues

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Hues that which have been "toned-down" by being mixed with gray or complementary hues. Neutrals do not reflect any single wavelength of light, bu rather all of them at once.

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Tint

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any hue to which any amount of white is added

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Shade

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Any hue to which any amount of black has been added

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Tone

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Any hue to which any amount of gray has been added or any amount of its complement

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Mute

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Any hue to which the complement has been added.

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Achromatic

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Gray scale, the range of calues between white and black, including these two values.

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Value

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The "lightness" or "darkness" of a color. Adding white or clack to any hue produces changes in value.

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Intensity

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The brightness (vividness/purity) of a hue. Chances in intensity are produced by adding gray of the same balue to any hue or by mixing the hue with it's complementary hue

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Color Temperature

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The sensation that different hues convey different qualities of emotional intensity or temperature. Red, Orange, Yellow are warm. Green, Blue, Violet are cool.

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Color Schemes

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General systematic plans for the selection and distribution of hues, values, and intensities, within any structure

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Monochromatic Scheme

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Only a single hue is used and that which is modified by value and intensity. Consisting of variation of a single hue.

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Analogous Scheme

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Limited number of hues (most often 3) which are next to eachother on the color wheel

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Triadic Scheme

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Three hues which are equally separated on the color wheel

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Double Complementary Scheme

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Two hues next to eachother and their complements

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Simultaneous Contrast

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Alterations in the appearance of a color caused by changing its background or surroundings. The direct contact between two hues tends to reduce the similarities and heightens the difference of the two hues.

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Color Depth

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Common visual illusion of different hues and values appearing to lie at different distances from the eye, even though they are applied to the same surfaces. It can "advance" or "recede"

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Local Color or Objective Color

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Making, the selection and placement of colors so that the objects depicted are shown in the colors, values, and intesities they are commonly thought to have.

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Arbitrary Color or Subjective Color

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Making the selection and placement of colors so that the objects depicted are shown in colors which have little or nothin gto do with their conventional appearance. Such uses of color need not necessarily be either sujective or arbitrary.

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Pigments

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Color Substances, usually powdery in nature, that are used with liquid vehicles to produce paint

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Spectrum

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The band of individual colors that results when a beam of light is broken into its component wavelengths of hues (rainbow/prism)