Color Theory

 Colors located directly across from each other on the color wheel.

• analogous colors

• cool colors

• complimentary colors

• monochromatic colors

Tone

•  mixing gray to any color

  
  

• mixing white to any color

• basic colors

• mixing black to any color

adding a primary and a secondary hue together

• tint

• tertiary color

• hue

• secondary color

Saturation

• "pure" color

• The lightness or darkness of a color

• A visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship

•  the brightness, intensity or how vivid a color is

Shade

• adding gray to any color

• adding black to any color

• lightness or darkness of a color

• adding white to any color

Colors that are besides or next to each other on a color wheel

• monochromatic color

• saturation

• color wheel

• analogous colors

Reorder the following

• tertiary colors

• secondary colors

• primary colors

A visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship.

• color wheel

• warm colors

• monochromatic colors

• secondary colors

Monochromatic Colors

• Colors located directly across from each other on the color wheel

• lightness and darkness of two colors

•  tints, tones and shades of one single color

• colors that are besides each other on the color wheel

yellows, oranges and reds

• analogous colors

• cool colors

• complimentary colors

• warm colors