Color wheel - Basic color schemes and calculator |color theory: Color Theory Introduction

Color wheel - Basic color schemes and calculator |color theory: Color Theory Introduction 

What is colour?

Colour or color is a property of light as seen by people.  The quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue. the natural appearance of the skin, especially of the face is called complexion. The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.

Why is color theory important?

 

Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite. ... As a powerful form of communication, color is irreplaceable

 

Basically there are three different types of colors.

There are three different types of colors: primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The secondary colors are green, orange, and purple.

Primary colors:-

Any of a group of colours from which all other colours can be obtained by mixing..

Primary colors:-

are a bit like prime numbers. They are not formed by the combination of other colors but they can be combined to form other colors.

 

Secondary colors:-

A colour resulting from the mixing of two primary colours are called secondary colour. The three secondary colors (green, orange and purple) are created by mixing two primary colors

Tertiary colour:-

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.

What is Hue?

 Hue is the most basic element of a color and what most people think of when they think “color.” Hue refers to the specific wavelengths of light which hit your retina and cause you to experience sensations like “red” or “yellow” or “green.”

Tints:-

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative lightness. ... This moves the mixed color toward a neutral color. A tint is a lighter value of a hue that involves adding the neutral color of white to the hue.

Shade:-

shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Even Black is also not a shade because a shade is a color in which you add black to in order to change its intensity therefor darkening or muting it,

What is the difference between a Colour and a shade?

 

In contrast, if you say a different color, that can either mean a different shade of the same generally color or it can mean a totally different color: red instead of blue, for example. ... Shade refers to the different darker/lighter versions of a colour, while colours are... Well, colours.

Tone: -

A tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey, or by both tinting and shading

What is intensity?

Intensity is a property of color which gives strength and vividness. Adding black, grey, or color opposite in the color wheel can change the intensity of a color. Intensity also refers to purity of the color and purest color has brightest intensity

What is value?

Color value refers to the lightness or darkness of the hue. Adding white to a hue produces a high-value color, often called a tint. Adding black to a hue produces a low-value color, often called a shade. Intensity. Intensity, also called chroma or saturation, refers to the brightness of a color.

What is color wheel?

 

A circle with different coloured sectors used to show the relationship between colours.

The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The secondary colors are green, orange, and purple. And the tertiary colors are yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green. These are the 12 colors that typically appear on a color wheel

What is a color wheel used for?

 

The reason the color wheel is an important tool for artists is because it displays the relationships between the colors. In general, the way the colors contrast with each other can be defined as either analogous or complementary

Warm colors :— such as red, yellow, and orange; evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire.

Why are warm Colours used?

Warm colors are stimulating and, as the name implies, connect emotionally to warmth. Because of these associations warm colors are used to convey messages of happiness, sociability and energy. Restaurants and food companies often use the colors red and yellow because of this idea.

Cool colors :—

 such as blue, green, and purple (violet); evoke a cool feeling because they remind us of things like water or grass. The phrase cool color is used to describe any color that is calm or soothing in nature. Cool colors are not overpowering and tend to recede in space. For this reason, cool colors typically make a space seem larger. Examples of cool colors include green, blue and violet

Analogous colors:-

Analogous colors are groups of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, sharing a common color, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and a tertiary. ... An analogous color scheme creates a rich, monochromatic look. Analogous colors are any three colors which are side by side on a 12-part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates. Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green

Complementary colour:-

Complementary is a color scheme using one base color and its complement, the color on the exact opposite side of the color wheel. The base color is main and dominant, while the complementary color is used only as an accent. A combination of one warm and one cold color is always created. Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and green). The high contrast of complementary colors creates a vibrant look especially when used at full saturation.

Split-complementary color:-

The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement. This color scheme has the same strong visual contrast as the complementary color scheme, but has less tension. A split complementary scheme involves the use of three colors. Start with one color, find its complement and then use the two colors on either side of it. For example, the complement of blue-green is red-orange and the split complement of blue-green would be red and orange

What is an achromatic color?

An achromatic color is a one that lacks hues such as white, grey and black, and a chromatic color is a color which has even the slightest amount of hue. Achromatic colors (white, grey and black) have lightness but no hue or saturation. They can be created by mixing complementary colors together.

Monocrometic colour:-

Monochromatic color schemes are easy to create because they use only one color. Monochromatic schemes use different tones from the same angle on the color wheel (the same hue). Monochromatic color schemes are guaranteed to suit each other because they all come from the same family. Monochromatic color schemes are derived from a single base hue and extended using its shades, tones and tints. Tints are achieved by adding white and shades and tones are achieved by adding a darker color, grey or black. ... This is not monochromatic in the strictly scientific meaning of the word.

Quaternary colours:-

 A mixture of two tertiary colors gives a quaternary. The quaternary colors are green, purple, and orange, much neutralized. They are sometimes spoken of as olive, prune, and buff .

How many quaternary colors are there?

The names for the twelve quaternary colors are more variable, if they exist at all, though indigo and scarlet are standard for blue–violet and red–vermilion.

What is a quinary color?

Colors: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, and Quinary. ... Plum, buff, and sage are the quaternary colors. Blue grey, grey brown, and khaki are the quinary colors. Red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors. Orange, green and purple are the secondary colors.

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