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The Color Wheel and Color Terms

The color wheel is used in many professions. It is a guide for decorators, artists, florists, photographers, designers, and teachers.

It offers 100 color combinations and has a rotating dial. You rotate the dial to a desired color to position #1. It explains how that color can be used effectively by itself or as the basis of a two-color, three-color, or four-color combination.
THE COLOR WHEEL CONSIST OF 12 COLORS:

1. PRIMARY COLORS: Colors from which all colors are made. Primary colors cannot be mixed from any other color! They are the purest of hues. RED, YELLOW and BLUE.

Refer to the photo below.

2. SECONDARY COLORS: A combination of primary colors. ORANGE (red + yellow), GREEN (Blue + yellow), PURPLE (red + blue).

3. INTERMEDIATE COLORS: A combination of "primary" and "secondary" colors. RED ORANGE, YELLOW ORANGE, YELLOW GREEN, BLUE GREEN, RED PURPLE, BLUE PURPLE.

Color Terms

Color Terms:

HUE: The name of a color. The identity of a color. The label by which a color is known.

Value or Tonal Value:
The lightness or darkness of a color. A colors dimension. Adding white to a color lightens it and raises the value. Adding black, darkens and lowers its value. Value can also be changed by adding any color that is either lighhter or darker than the original.

Intensity:
The degree of purity of a color. Its strength, saturation, force, the "noise" it makes!

Tint: The light value. Adding white. (red + white = pink)

Tone: A color to which gray or some of the compliment of the hue has been added, neutralized, made grayer.

Shade: The dark value. Adding black. (red + black = maroon)

Cool Colors: "Receding" colors. (blues, greens, purples)

Warm Colors: "Advancing" colors. (reds, yellows, oranges)

Neutrals: Black, White and Gray.

Near Neutrals: Brown, Beige and Tan.

Unity: You achieve unity in a room by repetition in color, lines and texture. Never leave a color alone, "repeat" colors around the room.

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Color Schemes

Color Schemes:

Monochromatic:
Created by using different values of one hue from the color wheel. (Ex: red, pink, maroon) Working with one color. Mono (one) Chrome (color)

Analogous or Related:
Created by using hues (three colors) that are next to each other on the color wheel. Colors with a family resemblance. They consist of one primary color, one intermediate color and one secondary color. (Ex: blue, blue-green, green) Though different, they all have some of the same "primary" color.

Complimentary:
Created by using hues that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel. Two colors that have nothing in common. When used together, they tend to become their brightest or more vibrate.

Split Complimentary:
Created by selecting a hue on the color wheel and combining it with the two hues on each side of the direct compliment. (Ex: yellow, blue-violet, red-violet)

Double Complimentary:
Created with two sets of "Complimentary" colors. (Ex: yellow and violet, red and green)

Triad:
Created by using three hues that are an equal distance apart on the color wheel. (Ex: violet, green, yellow)

Accented Neutral:
White and black accented with a bright color. (Ex: white, black, red)


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