COLOR

• Color wheel + tetrads, triads• Color sets: primary, secondary, intermediate/tertiary, achromatic,

complimentary, analogous• Split compliment

• CMYK • Tints, tones, shades

• Color as a tool to create depth• Local color

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TETRAD

Set of four colors that are evenly spaced

on the wheel

Primary Colors are the three most

basic hues

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TRIAD

set of three colors

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spaced on the wheel

Secondary Colors are formed by combining two primary colors

Tertiary Colors

The Complimentary

Color is the hue opposite on the color

wheel.

Analogous Colors share the same third or fourth of

the wheel

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Achromatic colors are neutrals that are not found on the color wheel or within the light

spectrum

Chromatic Grays

Formed by mixing a Complimentary Pair together

The hue brown is a chromatic (colored) gray.

What is the difference between these two?

LOOK - what is the true cause for the difference?

The Printing Primaries or

The Process ColorsThese four colors are used to print much of the color images we see on paper. Professional printers as well as the printers connected to our computers use these colors in transparent layers to create a wide range of colors.

                                                                   

Theoretically it is possible to produce an adequate range of colours

Warm colors and cool colors have a unique ability to move towards us or away from us. This is especially true when they are positioned close to each other.

On the following slide: Which color seems to project from the surface?

Which color seems to recede into the surface?

HUE HUEHUE

+ WHITE + GRAY

= TINT = TONE = SHADE

+ BLACK

The local color of

this lemon is yellow.

Local color is the main hue of an object or space.

Local color

• Color wheel + tetrads, triads• Color sets: primary, secondary, intermediate/tertiary, achromatic,

complimentary, analogous• Split compliment

• CMYK • Tints, tones, shades

• Color as a tool to create depth• Local color

COLOR