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what is colour ?
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Colour is the different wave lengths of visible light. colour is essentially light.
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Name the order of the visible spectrum.
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red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet.
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What is the Additive colour system?
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the system of white light. it is RGB added together to create white. The medium is projected light.
note: this is the way in which the TV works. |
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What is Subtracted colour system?
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The system of colour pigments. CMY added together to make BLACK. mixing 2 colours changes the wavelength to produce a new colour.
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Do the subtractive and additive colour systems work together? If so how?
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Yes, the colour systems work together. Any 2 subtractive make an additive and vice versa.
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who created the colour wheel and what does the colour wheel provide?
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The colour wheel is a basic map showing the relationships among the colours
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what are primary colours?
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Red
Yelow and Blue Theres colours are pure and cant be mixed from other colours. The other colours are created by mixing the primary colours. |
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what are secondary colours?
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Orange
purple green each consist of 2 primary colours |
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what are tertiary colours?
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Colours such as red orange and yellow-green are mixed from one primary and one secondary colour.
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What are complements?
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the colours that sit opposite each other on the colour wheel. and for a combination you choose the near opposite ( the colour next to the opposite) on the colour wheel.
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What are Analogous colours?
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the colour schemes built from hues that sit near to each other on the colour wheel
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what is hue?
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the unique characteristic we use to distinguish colour
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what is saturation?
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(chroma) Purity of the colours in relationship to its grey content.
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what is Value?
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in illustrator it is labelled as brightness. and it is the lightness or darkness of a colour.
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what is tint?
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addition of white to pure hue.
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what id shade?
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Addition of black to pure hue
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what is tone what is the effect?
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Addition of grey to a pure hue (desaturating effect)
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what are the 2 theories which designers see/use colour?
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1. colour and contrast ( Itten)
2. Colour interaction (Albers) |
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what are the 7 contrasts that effect colour choices?
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1. Value:difference in contrast. use of black and white or black and yellow. Value is great for signs BUT bad for reading.
2. hue: the use of different colours to make items look different ex. when you turn your design to B&W does it still work? 3. saturation: use of colours with different levels of saturation. the more saturated , closer it appears. the less saturated the further it appears. 4. complement: the use of opposite colours the bring out each other. creates a vibrant image. 5. temperature: colours comparative to temperature of nature. yellows to reds warm, greens to purples cool. 6. size: some colour combinations make the elements look bigger. (smaller elements of colour often carry a bigger impact). 7. simultaneous contrast: the eye's search for colour complements. ( the effect of colour "burning "into your retinas. |
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what is the colour interaction theory?
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the theory that colour look differently depending on which colours surround them (ex. placing an element in a lighter background make it look lighter)
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why do we need colour matching systems?
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Because the human brain has a very hard time remembering colours.
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Full colour prints are made up of _________, a ________ colour is a special or ink(possibly in addition)
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CMYK, SPOT
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what are 4 main standard colour specification systems used today?
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Pantone Matching System (PMS)
Truematch Toyo Focoltone |
