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Color Theory

This document provides information about different aspects of color, including: - Color schemes such as monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic, and achromatic. - The psychological associations of different colors like red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, white, and black. - Color blindness types including protanomaly, deuteranomaly, and tritanomaly. - Key figures in the development of color theory concepts like Newton who developed the color wheel and the concept of color of light, and Moses Harris who developed the concept of color of paint.

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Color Theory

This document provides information about different aspects of color, including: - Color schemes such as monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic, and achromatic. - The psychological associations of different colors like red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, white, and black. - Color blindness types including protanomaly, deuteranomaly, and tritanomaly. - Key figures in the development of color theory concepts like Newton who developed the color wheel and the concept of color of light, and Moses Harris who developed the concept of color of paint.

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Questions
Inability of a person to recognize green color is known as
_______ denotes a range of position dependent colors used to fill an area.
The attribute that defines the intensity of color is called ______
Which is the color system used by most printers?
Adding gray to an original color will give you a ______
The color scheme made by choosing colors that are directly opposite to each other on the color wheel is called as
The variance between two colors is known as
Red and Blue colors combine to form ______
In which of the following color gradient types, the linear gradient gets mirrored on either side of starting point?
Which of the following is a tertiary color?
Gray is a neutral color.
The attribute that differentiates colors as red, blue, green is called ______
The process of creating color by blocking white light using pigment of dyes is called as
The color scheme made by choosing different tints, tones, and shades of the same hue is called as
Which is the color system used by most monitors?
Red and Yellow colors combine to form _______
The color scheme made by choosing colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel is called as
In which of the following color gradient types, the colors sweep around the starting point in a counterclockwise
direction?
Which of the following colors is associated with trust, security, coldness, and fear?
The color scheme that only involves white and black color is called as
In a color wheel, the colors directly opposite to each other has maximum contrast.
A shade is lighter than the original color.
Which one of the following is a warm color?
In which of the following color gradient types, the colors are arranged in a circular pattern?
______ measures the variation among grays and refers to the darkness or lightness of a color.
Adding white to an original color will give you a ______
A color wheel helps you to create meaningful color schemes for your designs.
A tint is lighter than the original color.
The colors should be combined in such a way that it creates a ______
Which color scheme is mostly used in minimalistic designs?
The color scheme made by choosing colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel is called as
Who developed the concept of 'color of paint' that states all colors are mixtures of red, yellow and blue pigments?

Which color system allows designers to match the colors irrespective of the equipment used for the color production?

In which of the following color gradient types, the colors are arranged in a straight line?

Blu and yellow


All colors are mixtures of red, blue and yellow pigments
cool color
The decreased ability of a person to distinguish between colors is known as
Which one of the following is a neutral color?
Inability of a person to recognize blue/yellow color is known as
The process of creating color by adding light to a black background is called as
All colors are mixtures of red, blue and green lights.
Adding black to an original color will give you a ______
Inability of a person to recognize red color is known as
Red and green are complementary colors.
Who developed the concept of 'color of light' that states all colors are mixtures of red, green and blue lights?
Blue and Yellow colors combine to form
Correct
Deuteranopia
Color gradient
saturation
CMYK
Tone
Complementary
Color contrast Colour Gradient
Orange
Reflected
TEAL
1
hue
sub
Mono
RGB
Orange
Tridac
Angular
Blue
Achromatic
1
1
Red
radial

Tint
1
1
Harmony
mono
Tetradic
Tim Brown

RGB

Linear

Green
1
Blue
Color blindness
white
Tritanopia
Additive
1
TINT chroma
Protanopia
Moses Haris Newton
protanomaly, which is a reduced sensitivity to red light
deuteranomaly which is a reduced sensitivity to green light and is the most common form of colour blindness
tritanomaly which is a reduced sensitivity to blue light and is extremely rare.

Complementary
Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and
green).

A monochromatic color scheme is made by choosing different tints, tones, and shades of one hue. It is simple and mostly used

An analogous color scheme is made by choosing colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. These colors conne

A complementary color scheme is made by choosing colors that are directly opposite to each other on the color wheel. These

If you like the complementary color scheme, but you feel it is too bold for your design project, you may opt for a split-complem

A triadic color scheme is made by choosing colors that are spaced evenly on the color wheel. These colors create a sense of eq

A tetradic (rectangle) color scheme is made from two sets of complementary colors that are not evenly spaced on the color w

A square color scheme is similar to the rectangle color scheme and is made from two sets of complementary colors that are ev

An achromatic color scheme only involves white black and gray colors. Designers mostly prefer a black on the white color sch

Red: Love, Passion, Energy, Heat, Anger, Danger, and Warning.


Green: Environment, Healing, Earth, Envy, Jealousy, and Guilt.
Blue: Security, Integrity, Trust, Security, Coldness, and Fear.
Yellow: Happy, Bright, Sunny, Irresponsible, and Unstable.
Orange: Courage, Confidence, Success, Ignorance, and Sluggishness.
Purple: Royalty, Nobility, Luxury, Mystery, and Moodiness.
Pink: Sweet Compassion, Happy, Weak, and Immaturity.
Brown: Earth, Outdoors, Conservative, and Dogmatic.
White: Goodness, Innocence, Isolation, Pristine, and Emptiness.
Black: Protection, Elegance, Dramatic, Death, Evil, and Mystery.
mostly used in minimalistic designs.

colors connect well and have a visual unity.

wheel. These colors oppose each other and are used in designs that need a good contrast.

split-complementary color scheme. It is made by choosing a color and two shades on either side of the opposite color.

a sense of equality because of the use of equally spaced varying hues. It is always better to use one hue as the dominant color while the o

the color wheel as shown. This will give you an equal number of warm and cool colors.

rs that are evenly spaced on the color wheel.

hite color scheme but a white on black requires less energy and improves battery life.
he dominant color while the other two as accents.

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