Color Wheel - A visual representation of colors and their relationship to each other., Hue - Another name for color and is pure pigment., Intensity - The brightness or dullness of a color.  , Saturation - The greatest possible intensity of the color., Primary Colors - Red, Yellow and Blue. Used to make all other colors., Seconday Colors - Orange, Green, Purple. Made by mixing equal parts of 2 primary colors., Intermediate Colors - Colors made by mixing a primary and a secondary color. Sometimes called Tertiary ., Shade - A color plus black in varying degrees to darken the color., Tint - A color plus white in varying degrees to lighten or make a color more pale., Warm Colors - Red, Yellow and Orange. Colors that remind you of fire, summer and fall., Cool Colors - Blue, Green and Purple. Colors that remind you of water, grass and mountains., Complimentary Colors - Colors directly across from each other on the color wheel.  , Analogous Colors - 3 Colors side by side on the color wheel. Sometimes called color families., Tone - When gray is added to a color., Neutral - Meaning without color but may have undertones of a color. Examples: beige, ivory, taupe, cream, black, white, gray, brown., Color - The reflection of light from the surface of an object.  White is the presence of all colors and black is the absence of color. Think no light - no color., Monochromatic - One color plus the shades and tints of that color. Mono=one and Color=Chroma, Color Scheme - Organizational groupings or combinations of colors used together. ,

Color Theory Vocabulary

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