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High impact hue

Colors that are high impact, shock value are colors that are,

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Dilution

Changing a pure or saturated hue by lightening, darkening, or muting by the use of additives such a white, black, grey, or its compliments.

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Muted

What is a mixture of interesting colors from mixed compliments upon reaching a midpoint and turns to neutral?

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Baker-Miller Park system

What is an extreme color gauge used to modify behavior as to reduce aggressiveness upon exposure to a specific color as human body is genetically reactive according to color stimulus?

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Azo dyes

What is the family of petroleum based dyes , developed in the latter nineteenth century with greater color features prescribed by aniline dye?

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Transparence

When a parent descendant of any two colors and the interval between them is arranged as if the parent colors were crossing one another, there is an immediate color lying on top of an opaque which is an illusion called,

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Commercial color-order system

What is the systematic arrangement of colors meant to assist the user in making selections from the colors available in a particular product line?

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Intermediary colors

What is the identifying name beside Tertiary for colors , which are mixture of primary and secondary colors?

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Hue

What is the name of a color with one dominant content?

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Triad

When a color scheme of three colors forming a triangle in the color wheel, what is its classification?

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Muddy Neutral

The resultant color mixture when two paints do not reflect a common wavelength mix,

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Field

In carpet and flag design, what is the term for the background upon which colors, forms and shapes are laid?

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Optimized palette

What is a pre-selected, limited palette made up of colors that are found in the original source image?

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Color Forecasting

What is a service that provides manufactures and vendors information and guidance on upcoming a consumer interest and preference in certain colors and palettes?

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Dilution

A tint is a hue that has been made lights with white shade is a hue that has been made darker with black. This process is?

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Luster

What is the light reflecting quality of a surface softened and diffused with a sheen?

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Vehicle

What is a liquid, paste, viscous, wax, chalk or other substance into which pigments, dyes or other colorants maybe introduced to form a medium such as oil paint, textile dye or crayon?

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Bauhaus

What is the established group of theoretically harmonious hues, expressed geometrically as rectangles and triangles overlaid on artist's spectrum?

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Daylight

Human response to sunlight is part of our genetic makings, hence the standard whiteness for man-made light source is a?

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Brilliance

The combined qualities of high light-reflectance and strong hue, found in saturated colors and strong hues.

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Attractive

There are several basis of people's color choices but the most primary reason.

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Emotions

What are people's responses, perceptions, reactions based on?

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Serene and dreamy

What psychological or emotional feelings evoke the use of pastel tints of pink, lavender, min or peach?

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Pixel

One of the points of light that make up the picture on a monitor screen That derives from "picture element".

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Albers

The man who was arguably pre-eminent color theorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is,

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Interval

What is a visual step between colors visually equidistant steps between colors?

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Contrast colors

What colors used to determine the strength of an image, to emphasize or to make a strong visual portrayal?

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Pantone

The global color system based on the Theory of Colors used by designers Communicate color choices, which are invaluable aids for color understanding.

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Visual Acuity

What is the ability or asset of an individual with a sharpness of vision and capability to see details?

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Split Complimentary

What is the variation of the standard complementary scheme that combines a color and the two colors adjacent to its compliment?

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Bland

When there is no discernible hue or color.

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Color management

What is the process of synchronizing colors between two or more device's on media?

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Color constancy

The perception that the colors of familiar objects remains the same no matter what the general lighting may be,

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Sparkle

What is a sharp light with impression of movement with noticeable reflectiveness?

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Dissonant

In the field of colors, what is the polar opposite of color harmony in design?

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Web-safe palette

What do you call the palette of 216 selected colors that are reasonably consistent in viewing on any operating system and monitor?

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Monotone

What is a color without variation, generally used to describe two or more colors of close identical value and saturation?

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Chroma

What is the synonym for brilliance or strength of hue and light?

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Composition

A complete entity of objects, color materials meant to be sensed as a whole,

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Light intensity

What is the light reflecting quality of color or hue?

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Analogous

What color scheme uses three to five colors that are adjacent to each other providing a very harmonious look, because they share a common colour that dominates?

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Value

The relative lightness or darkness of a color simple,

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Pale

The best and recommendable property of colors for interior spaces are

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Indirect color

A secondary reflection of color that occurs when light from general light source reaches highly reflective color on broad plane,

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Saturated

What is the degree of purity of a color, its hue intensity or vivid quality as opposed to muted or dull quality, one or two of primary colors but not the third?

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Matte

What is the categorical classification of a painted surface whether smooth or rough, that has no shine, dull and visually flat?

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Monochromatic

A color scheme that uses one hue in combination with any or all of its tints and shades?

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Light Reflecting Value

What should a lighting manuracturer provide a consumer as a basic information in the merits of a lighting fixture?

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Triadic

What is the color scheme that uses three equidistant colors in the wheel. In various, shades and tones?