color wheel

A color will...

be accentuated by its complement when places next to it

A split complement color scheme

A base color and two colors on either side of its complement on the color wheel

A subtractive color

be dulled by adding its complement, a tint, a shade and/or a gray

Analogous colors

usually next to each other on the color wheel

Blue

can be a warm color or a cool color

Color

The most relative element of design

Color value

is a colors relative lightness or darkness

Complementary colors

are opposite of each other

Double complements

Another way to describe tetradic complements

Green and red lights

they will make yellow light when mixed together equally

Hue

the position of a color on a color wheel

Monochromatic

describes this color scheme

Primary colors

red, blue, yellow

Saturation

the relative brightness and dullness of a color

Secondary colors on the pigmented color wheel

orange, green, purple

Simultaneous color contrast

the effect that environment has on our perception of color

Subtractive color

color that has an absence of physical light and reveals pigment through mixing limited sets of pigmented or dyed grounds

The additive color complementary pairs

red and cyan, green and magenta, blue and yellow

The additive color complements

green, magenta

The additive color primaries

make white when overlapped

The additive color secondaries

cyan, magenta, yellow

The main tertiary colors on the pigmented color wheel

yellow-orange, orange-red, red-violet, violet-blue, blue-green, green-yellow

Tinting

By adding white makes it lighter but decreases the saturation

Warmer colors and cooler colors

they tend to advance while cooler colors tend to recede

When a cool color is placed in front of a warm color...

the warm color will tend to advance while the cool color will tend to recede causing a tension between the two

White

it can be added to any color

Yellow

can be a warm and cool color