Color wheel relationships, complementary and analogous schemes, and warm versus cool color concepts for design beginners.
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- What is a color wheel?
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A circular diagram showing the relationships between colors- How many main colors are on a standard color wheel?
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12- What are the traditional primary colors?
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Red, yellow, and blue- What are secondary colors?
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Orange, green, and violet (made by mixing two primary colors)- What are tertiary colors?
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Colors made by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color- Define hue in color theory
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The name of a color, such as red, blue, or green- What are complementary colors?
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Colors opposite each other on the color wheel- Name a complementary color pair
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Red and green, blue and orange, or yellow and purple- What is an analogous color scheme?
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Two to five colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel- What is a triadic color scheme?
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Three colors equally spaced around the color wheel- What is a tetradic color scheme?
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Four colors forming a rectangle or square on the color wheel- What is a split-complementary color scheme?
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One color plus the two colors adjacent to its complement- Which colors are considered warm?
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Red, orange, and yellow- Which colors are considered cool?
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Blue, green, and violet- Do warm colors appear to advance or recede?
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Advance, they appear to come forward toward the viewer
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