Color Theory

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Red, yellow, and blue are ____ colors.

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Primary

Front

Orange, violet, and green are ____ colors.

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Secondary

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Any 3 neighboring colors on the color wheel. They are made up of one primary, one secondary and one intermediate color.

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Analogous

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Colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel

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Complementary

Front

All the tints and shades of ONE color

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Monochromatic

Front

These are the colors that are made by mixing a primary and secondary color. They are located between the primary and secondary color that created them.

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Tertiary colors

Front

A darker value of a hue is called a...

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Shade

Front

To get a tint, you add what color?

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White

Front

To get a shade, you add what color?

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Black

Front

Lightness and darkness

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value