1. Hue: Another word for a color’s name.

2. Value: A color’s lightness or darkness.

3. Intensity: The brightness or dullness of a hue. A pure hue is called a high-
intensity color and a low hue is a low intensity color.
4. Tint: A light value of a hue made by adding white.
5. Shade: A dark value of a hue made by adding black.
6. Color wheel: A tool for organizing color in which the spectrum is bent
into a circle.
7. Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue elemental hues from which all
others colors are derived. Primary colors cannot be made by mixing
hues together.
8. Secondary Colors: Green, Orange, and Violet colors made by mixing two
primary colors in equal movements.
9. Tertiary: All hues made by mixing one primary and one secondary color
in equal amounts. These are yellow green, yellow orange, blue green, blue
violet, red orange, and red violet
10. Complementary: Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. These
colors are the strongest contrast of each other.
11. Analogous: Colors next to each other on the color wheel and have a
common hue.
12. Warm Colors: Red, Orange, and Yellow colors that suggest warmth and
appear to move to the viewer.
13. Cool Colors: Blue, Green, and Violet colors that suggest coolness and seem
to recede from the viewer.
14. Neutral Colors: Black, White, Grey, and sometimes Brown
15. Monochromatic: A color scheme that only uses one hue and all of its
values.
16. Optical Color: Color as seen in life.
17. Arbitrary Colors: Colors are not as they appear in life.
1. Colors are broken into seven color schemes, or a plan for organizing
color. All of the color schemes are planned according to the color wheel:

2. The Complementary Color Scheme is using colors that are located

opposite of each other on a color wheel. These consist of red-green,
yellow- violet, and blue orange.

3. A form of the complementary color scheme is the Split Complementary

Color Scheme. This is when you pick one hue and locate its complement.
The two hues on the side of the complement are the original hue’s split
complement.
4. Analogous Color Scheme is the scheme that consists of colors that
sit side by side on the color wheel and have a common hue.
Examples of colors that are considered analogous are violet, red-
violet, and violet.

5. Another color scheme is the Monochromatic Color Scheme. This is

the scheme that only uses one hue and all of its values-tints, and
shades.

6. The Triad Color Scheme is uses hues that are equally spaced on the
color wheel.
7. The last two color schemes are the Warm Color Scheme and Cool
Color Scheme. The Warm Color Scheme consists of the colors Red,
Orange, and Yellow. Warm Colors suggest warmth and appear to be
moving to the viewer. The Cool Colors has the colors Blue, Green
and Violet. Cool Colors are in opposite of Warm colors in the way
that they suggest coolness and appear to be receding from the
viewer.

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