Assignment

on

Submitted by :

YAMINI SONI

Guided by :

Miss SHALINI RAMANI

COLOR TERMS

COLOR WHEEL

COLOR SCHEMES

Monochromatic

Complementary

Split Complementary

Related (Analogous)

Triad

Tetrad

COOL & WARM COLORS

TINT & SHADE

INTENSITY

INDEX

Saturation: is the degree of purity of a hue. It’s similar to chroma, though not

quite the same thing. Pure hues are highly saturated. When gray is added the color

becomes desaturated.

Intensity: The brightness or dullness of a color. Adding white or black to a color

lowers it’s intensity. An intense and highly saturated color has a high chroma.

Value/Luminance: Is a measure of the amount of light reflected from a color and

is basically how light or dark a hue is. Adding white to a hue makes it lighter and

increases its value or luminance. Consequently adding black makes it darker and

lowers the value or luminance.

Shade: The result of adding black to a hue to produce a darker hue.

Tint: The result of adding white to a hue to produce a lighter hue.

Tone: In between black and white we have gray. A color tone is the result of

adding gray to a hue. Shades and tints are tones at the extremes.

Color can be described in three ways.

By name, By purity, and by value or lightness.

We have several terms to help us describe

colors in those three ways. As you read the

terms below glance back at the image above.

Hue: When someone is talking

about hue they are talking about the

actual color of an object. Green is a

hue as are red, yellow, blue, purple,

etc.

Chroma: Refers to the purity of a

hue in relation to gray. When there is

no shade of gray in a color that color

has a high chroma. Adding shades of

gray to a hue reduces it’s chroma.

COLOR WHEEL

COLOR SCHEMES

Monochromatic Complementary

Related

(Analogous)

Split

Complementary

Triad Tetrad

Monochromatic Color Scheme

Monochromatic color scheme consists of

different values of one color. These color

schemes are easy to get right and can

be very effective, soothing

and authoritative.

Complementary Color Scheme

Complementary colors are colors that are

opposite each other on the color wheel,

such as blue and orange, red and green,

purple and yellow. These colors, when used

side-by-side, make each other appear

brighter. When they are mixed, they

neutralize each other.

Split Complementary Color Scheme

Split-complementary color scheme is a color

scheme that includes a main color and the

two colors on each side of its complementary

(opposite) color on the color wheel. Colors

that should be used are red/purple and

yellow/green.

Analogous Color Scheme

Analogous color schemes are colors that a adjacent

to each other on the color wheel. Some examples

are green, light green, and yellow or red, orange

and yellow. Analogous color schemes are

often found in nature and are

pleasing to the eye.

Triad Color Scheme

Triadic color scheme is a colors in which

3 colors of equidistant distribution on

the color wheel are used, such as the

basic triad of red, yellow and blue

primaries.

Tetrad Color Scheme

Tetradic color scheme: Tetrads are

any four colors with a logical

relationship on the color wheel, such

as double complements.

WARM & COOL

Colors

The colors of red, orange, and yellow are

considered warm colors because they are

the colors of fire.

Blue, green, and violet are considered cool

colors. When you think of a cool lake or ice

covered

pond, you see cool colors.

WARM CO LO R

COO L CO LO R

TINT & SHADE

A tint is a mixture of pure hue and white. Think of a

color like red saturated with lots of white. As more

white is added the color becomes a lighter and lighter

tint of red, until it turns to pale pink.

The shade of a color refers to how dark it is. It is the

combination of a hue and black. Thus, burgundy is a

shade of red, hunter is a shade of green, and rust is a

shade of orange.

SATURATION or INTENSITY

100% Light (white)

50% Light (gray)

0% Light (black)

The purity and brightness of a

colour; The relative saturation of a

hue on a scale from bright (pure) to

dull (mixed) with another hue or a

neutral; also called chroma.

Pure colors of the spectrum are fully

saturated. An intense color is very

vivid. The more saturated a color is,

less will be the feeling of movement of

the same object