Color Theory Quiz

Do you shiver when you’re in a light blue space? Fan yourself in a room full of red? Don’t worry — there’s a scientific reason why. Colors are indelibly tied to natural elements like fire, water, sky, evoking certain responses just as if you were seeing and experiencing it firsthand. What word is being described here?

• intensity

• saturation

• mood

• secondary

_______ is commonly used interchangeably with the word color.

• Primary

• Hue

• Mood

• Neutral

The value of a hue is determined by adding white to create a tint, black to create a ___________, or gray to create a tone.

• tint

• intensity

• gray

• shade

A _________ color scheme is bold but more importantly, it's balanced. It's made up of any three colors that form a triangle in the center of the wheel.

• triad

• complementary

• analogous

• monochromatic

Branch out into color with an ____________ color scheme, which consists of two to six colors that sit next to each other on the wheel.

• triad

• analogous

• monochromatic

• warm

Want to go for high-contrast color? Use a ___________ color scheme — it includes hues that are directly across from each other on the wheel.

• triad

• neutral

• monochromatic

• complementary

Take baby-steps toward color with a ___________ color scheme. It's simply one color in varying intensities from light to dark.

• monochromatic

• analogous

• triad

• split-complementary

___________ colors are made by mixing a primary color with its neighbor. 

• Primary

• Intermediate

• Secondary

• Warm

Secondary colors are made by mixing ______ amounts of two primary colors.

Which colors are called "primary?"

(a)  

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