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Color Definitions

This document defines various color properties and types. It describes hue as the quality that distinguishes one color from another, value as the lightness or darkness, and intensity as the brightness or dullness. It identifies primary colors as red, blue and yellow that cannot be made by mixing others, and secondary colors as orange, green and violet that are made by mixing two primaries. Tertiary colors are made from mixing a primary and secondary color. It also defines complementary, analogous, warm and cool colors.

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Color Definitions

This document defines various color properties and types. It describes hue as the quality that distinguishes one color from another, value as the lightness or darkness, and intensity as the brightness or dullness. It identifies primary colors as red, blue and yellow that cannot be made by mixing others, and secondary colors as orange, green and violet that are made by mixing two primaries. Tertiary colors are made from mixing a primary and secondary color. It also defines complementary, analogous, warm and cool colors.

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COLOR VOCABULARY

PROPERTIES OF COLOR:

HUE: THE QUALITY BY WHICH WE RECOGNIZE ONE COLOR FROM ANOTHER; HUE IS THE NAME OF A COLOR.

VALUE: THE LIGHTNESS OR DARKNESS OF A COLOR, AS EXPRESSED BY THE AMOUNT OF BLACK OR


WHITE MIXED WITH A PARTICULAR HUE.

INTENSITY OR SATURATION: THE BRIGHTNESS OR DULLNESS OF A COLOR OR HUE.

TYPES OF COLOR:

PRIMARY COLORS: RED, BLUE, YELLOW


COLORS THAT CAN NOT BE MADE BY MIXING ANY OTHER COLORS TOGETHER; ALL OTHER COLORS ARE
MADE FROM THESE THREE PRIMARIES.

SECONDARY COLORS: ORANGE, GREEN, VIOLET


COLORS THAT ARE MADE BY MIXING TWO PRIMARIES
YELLOW + RED = ORANGE, BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN, RED + BLUE = VIOLET.
IN PAINT MIXING, ONE GENERALLY STARTS WITH THE LIGHTER OF THE TWO COLORS AND ADDS THE
DARKER OR STRONGER COLOR TO IT.

TERTIARY OR INTERMEDIATE COLORS: RED-ORANGE, YELLOW ORANGE, BLUE GREEN,


YELLOW GREEN, RED VIOLET, BLUE VIOLET.
COLORS MADE BY MIXING A PRIMARY COLOR WITH A SECONDARY COLOR. TERTIARY MEANS “THIRD”
THEREFORE, PRIMARY +SECONDARY= TERTIARY.

ANALOGOUS COLORS: ANY GROUP OF THREE OR MORE COLORS THAT ARE FOUND BESIDE EACH
OTHER ON THE COLOR WHEEL.

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS: TWO COLORS THAT ARE DIRECTLY OPPOSITE EACH OTHER ON THE
COLOR WHEEL.

WARM COLORS: SUGGEST HEAT, GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE THE FAMILIES OF:


YELLOWS, REDS, ORANGES, AND RED VIOLETS

COOL COLORS: SUGGEST COLD, GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE THE FAMILIES OF:


BLUES, GREENS AND BLUE VIOLETS

CHALLENGE OPTION/ ADVANCED COLOR VOCABULARY


NEUTRAL GRAYS / COMPLEMENTARY COLOR MIX: WHEN EQUAL AMOUNTS OF ANY TWO
COMPLIMENTS ARE MIXED TOGETHER THEY WILL CREATE A NEUTRAL GRAY, BROWN OR OLIVE
GREEN COLOR...

EARTH TONES: CITRON, OLIVE AND RUSSET


MADE BY MIXING EQUAL PARTS OF TWO SECONDARY COLORS
ORANGE + VIOLET = RUSSET (Reddish Brown), ORANGE + GREEN = CITRON (Golden Yellow), GREEN
+ VIOLET =OLIVE.

TRIAD: A GROUP OF THREE COLORS WHICH ARE EQUALLY SPACED AROUND THE COLOR WHEEL IN
THE FORM OF AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE;
FOR EXAMPLE: YELLOW-ORANGE, BLUE-GREEN AND RED- VIOLET.

TINT: ANY COLOR PLUS WHITE

TONE: ANY COLOR PLUS GRAY


SHADE: ANY COLOR PLUS BLACK

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