Color Theory

A term borrowed from music. It describes the secondary hue bias or leaning of a primary hue

The secondary triad consists of green, orange, and violet. Each of these colors can be mixed by combining two primary colors

Co-Primaries expand the primary triad of red, yellow, and blue into three pairs that include warm and cool versions of each primary color

Tone is a somewhat generic term that can refer to any color except prismatic colors. All muted colors and chromatic grays are tones.

These are also called intermediate colors and are yellow-orange, red-orange, blue-green, yellow-green, blue-violet, and red-violet

a triad of earth tones such as burnt sienna, yellow ocher, and Paynes Gray

the relative purity of hue present in a color. three levels of saturation: prismatic color, muted color, and chromatic gray

Saturation, hue, and value

any 2 hues that lie directly opposite each other on the color wheel. When mixed, the resulting color is darker than the parent colors

The color wheel is any circular depiction of the hue continuum and has been used for centuries by color theorists

The primary triad is indivisible and, in theory, all other colors can be mixed from it.

the name given to a color to describe its location on the color spectrum, owing to its particular wavelength

a graphic representation of the full color spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet

a phenomenon of light that can be seen in a rainbow or prism reflection. It contains the full range of hues present in sunlight

Those colors that approach the purity of colors cast by a glass prism

color as manifested by reflected, rather than direct, light. Subtracted color primaries produce a dark dull tone when intermixed

Light reflected from a surface. It is tied to value. The lighter a color is the more luminous it is.

Color seen as light. When they are combined the result is a white light