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Color Chart and Properties of Color

The document discusses color properties and color harmony. It defines primary colors as red, yellow and blue which cannot be created by mixing other colors. Secondary colors are orange, green and violet which can be created by mixing primaries. Properties of color include hue (identity), intensity (brightness/saturation), value (lightness/darkness), and temperature (warm/cool). Color harmony schemes include monochromatic (one hue), analogous (adjacent hues), complementary (opposite hues), split complementary, and triadic (three equally spaced hues).

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Color Chart and Properties of Color

The document discusses color properties and color harmony. It defines primary colors as red, yellow and blue which cannot be created by mixing other colors. Secondary colors are orange, green and violet which can be created by mixing primaries. Properties of color include hue (identity), intensity (brightness/saturation), value (lightness/darkness), and temperature (warm/cool). Color harmony schemes include monochromatic (one hue), analogous (adjacent hues), complementary (opposite hues), split complementary, and triadic (three equally spaced hues).

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Color Chart and Properties of Color

A COLOR WHEEL is a chart which shows the relationships of the colors. You can use it like a
recipe book when you want to mix a special color.

PRIMARY COLORS are Red, Yellow, and Blue. Primary means first. These colors can’t
be created by mixing other colors.
SECONDARY COLORS are Orange, Green, and Violet. Secondary means second. These
colors can be created by mixing other colors.
INTERMEDIATE COLORS are Red-Orange, Red-Violet, Blue-Green, Blue Violet, Yellow-
Green, and Yellow-Orange. These colors can be created by mixing a primary and a
close secondary color

 PROPERTIES OF COLOR:
 Hue
– another word for color
– The actual color or the identity of a color, such as red.
– a color that is in the color spectrum (rainbow.)
 Intensity
– is the brightness or dullness (grayness) of a color
– is a color’s strength, saturation, purity. The "noise" it makes.
– A Pure Hue has the highest saturation and intensity of a color.
 Value
– The lightness or darkness of a color.
– When working with paint you can thin a color by adding
medium.
– The more transparent a color is, the lighter its value placed over
white.
– You can also alter the value by mixing hues together.
– Value, just like color, is changed by its surroundings.
– Different values of a color range from very light to very dark
(tints and shades).
 Mixing a hue with black creates a SHADE.
 Mixing a hue with white creates a TINT.
 Temperature
– Warm colors look and feel warm.
Ex. Yellows, oranges, reds
– Cool colors look feel cool.
Ex. Blues, greens, violets

 COLOR HARMONY – can be defined as a pleasing combination of colors.


Color Harmony based on:
 Monochromatic Color Scheme
– Mono = one, single , Chroma = color
– thus monochromatic = One color.
– This scheme may be achieved using tints and shades of one hue.
– The use of just one hue in an image. Value can be varied or used
with black and white.
 Analogous Color schemes
– Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Colors
with a family resemblance.
– Use of 2-3 colors that are right next to each other on the color
wheel.
 Complementary Color schemes
– Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel;
ex. red and green, violet and yellow, yellow-green and red-violet
etc.
 Split Complement Color schemes
– Three colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel,
but to either side of the exact opposite (complement)
Ex. red, blue-green, & yellow-green
 Triadic Color schemes
– Colors that are equally spaced.
– The most famous of these is the primary triad red, yellow, and
blue.
– Triadic harmonies are most effective if only one color is allowed
to dominate.

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