Color Wheel - 2D art

Hue

Position of a color on color wheel

Saturation

Similar to intensity, sometimes used to describe a color in terms of it’s relative value of a hue.

Monochromatic

having a single hue or color, usually including tints or shades of that color.

Secondary Color

Colors obtained by mixing primary colors.

Analogous Color

Colors found next to each other on the color wheel. Commonly known insets of two-three.

Tertiary Colors

Colors which result from mixing primary and secondary colors.

Tetradic colors

double compliments. Two sets of direct complimentary colors on the color wheel.

Triadic colors

often used for mixing a chromatic grey, these are a set of three colors on the color wheel spaced equidistantly around the color wheel.

Simultaneous contrast

When a color varies in appearance depending on the color placed next to it.

Complimentary colors

Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, and Purple

Chroma

A relative purity of color as it neutralizes to grey