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Lesson 4-Color Theory

Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Secondary colors are produced by mixing two primary colors: orange from red and yellow, green from yellow and blue, and violet from red and blue. The color wheel organizes all colors based on these primary and secondary colors. It also shows intermediate colors produced by mixing a primary and secondary color, like yellow-green from yellow and green. Qualities like hue, value, and intensity further define colors. Hue is the color family, value is the lightness or darkness, and intensity is the brightness or dullness. Colors can also be described as warm, cool, tints, shades, or neutrals based on these qualities and their placement on the color wheel.

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Lesson 4-Color Theory

Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Secondary colors are produced by mixing two primary colors: orange from red and yellow, green from yellow and blue, and violet from red and blue. The color wheel organizes all colors based on these primary and secondary colors. It also shows intermediate colors produced by mixing a primary and secondary color, like yellow-green from yellow and green. Qualities like hue, value, and intensity further define colors. Hue is the color family, value is the lightness or darkness, and intensity is the brightness or dullness. Colors can also be described as warm, cool, tints, shades, or neutrals based on these qualities and their placement on the color wheel.

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LESSON 4: COLOR THEORY

The first thing you usually notice about clothes or anything is their color. Before you start
studying which colors look best together, you should learn the meaning of color terms and the rules
that apply to colors.

The Color Wheel

Primary Colors – the sources of all colors, even though there are thousands and thousands of colors
in the world, they are all made up of these colors – red, blue and yellow.

Secondary Colors – are produced when mixing two equal amount of primary colors. If you mix equal
amount or yellow and blue you will have green, equal parts of red and blue will have violet, and red and yellow
you will have orange.

Look at the color wheel you will find these colors – orange, green and violet.
Intermediate Colors – are produced by mixing two equal amount of primary and secondary colors. Example, if
you mix equal parts of yellow (primary color) and green (secondary color) you will have yellow-green. Noticed
that yellow-green is found between yellow and green on the color wheel.

The intermediate colors are;


Yellow + green = yellow-green Red + violet = red-violet
Blue + green = blue-green Red + orange = red-orange
Blue + violet = blue-violet Blue + orange = blue-orange
Pure Colors – are the primary, secondary and intermediate colors because they have no white, black and gray
in them. Pure colors are also called “normal, true and basic colors”.
Tints – when pure colors are mixed with white, they are made lighter. Example, when white is added to red you
have pink. In other words pink is a tint of red. The more white you add, the lighter the pink will be. Tints are
also called “pastels”.
Shades – when pure colors are mixed with black, they are made darker. Example, when black is added to red
you have maroon, a shade of red. The more black you add, the more darker you have.
Grayed colors – most colors we used in clothes are grayed colors rather than bright, pure colors you see on
the color wheel. Grayed colors are also referred to as “soft colors” or “dull colors”. The more gray you add, the
more duller the color will be.
Neutrals – are white, black and gray. They look well with another and with all other colors. The more grayed
colors becomes, the more different colors it will harmonize with.

Warm and Cool Colors


Cool colors – are green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet. Blue is the coolest color. They are adjacent to one
another in the color wheel.
Warm colors – are red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and orange. Red is the warmest color. They are
also adjacent in the color wheel.
Qualities of Colors
Hue – is the family group name of a color. It is the name of a color. Ones they are combined differently and
given new names.
Value – refers to the lightness or the tint or the darkness of the shade. The scale of the value colors are from
the very lightest tint to the very darkest of the shade.
Intensity – means the brightness or dullness of a color. When you refer to a color as “bright” or “very bright” or
“dull” or “very dull” you are describing its intensity. Example, green peppers are bright yellow-green, while
olives are dull yellow green.

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