Principles of Design

What are the three attributes of colour?

• hue, value, intensity

• hue, value, shading

• hue, intensity, pigment

• value, intensity, sound

Answer explanation

Each color has its own appearance based on three key attributes – hue, chroma (saturation), and value (lightness). When you're describing a color, it's important to use all three of these attributes to accurately identify the color and distinguish it from others.

What are the three primary colours?

• yellow, purple, orange

• black, white, grey

• red, yellow, blue

• green, purple, orange

Answer explanation

The secondary colours between the three primary colours are

• green, orange, blue

• yellow, blue, red

• green, orange, violet

• black, white, grey

Answer explanation

A secondary color is a color made by mixing of two primary colors in a given color space.

The tertiary colours are

• yellow, red, blue

• green, orange, violet

• yellow, red, blue, green, orange, violet

• the colour between each primary and secondary colour

Answer explanation

Tertiary colors are combinations of primary and secondary colours. There are six tertiary colors; red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.

An easy way to remember these names is to place the primary name before the other colour. So the tertiary colour produced when mixing the primary colour blue with the secondary colour green, is called 'blue-green'.

Value does NOT mean

• tone

• the lightness or darkness of a colour

• adding white to tint or adding black to shade

• brightness

Monochromatic means

• mixing primary colours

• very bright colours

• shades and tints of one colour

• having no colour

Complimentary colours are

• colours that say nice things

• not on the colour wheel

• side by side on the colour wheel

• opposite on the colour wheel

These are NOT complimentary colours

• purple and yellow

• red and green

• orange and red

• orange and blue

Analogous colours are NOT

• red and red/purple

• opposite colours on the colour wheel

• neighbouring colours on the colour wheel

• yellow and yellow/green

Which is NOT a description of 'art'

• a physical expression of an individual's reaction to their past experiences

• a human creative skill or its application

• a craft or activity requiring imaginative skill

• the science of numbers