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