Elements+of+Design+-+Colour

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= 1. What is an ‘Additive colour model’? =

A model of colours shown through a light source to create different colours.

= 2. Define is Value (tone). =

Value is the amount of colour in an object, either light or dark.



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= = = 3. What are the “Primary” colours? =

Primary colours are essentially the three basic colours ( Blue, red , yellow )

= 4. What are “Complementary Colours”? =

Complementary colors are the most opposite colour. (on the wheel)



= 5. What is a “Subtractive colour model” ? =

It’s a model of colours over lapping each other in order to show what other colors you get when you mix various colours.



= 6. What is a “Shade”? =

Shade is any given colour that has black added to it.

= 7. What are “Secondary colours”? =

Secondary colours are colours you get when you mix primary colors.

= 8. What are “Analogous Colours”? =

Analogous colors are colors that are next or close to each other on the colour wheel.



= 9. What is “Hue (colour)”? =

Hue is basically how pure and vivid a colour is regardless of its tone.



= 10. What is “Tint”?? =

Tint is any colour that has white added to it. In this picture the closer we get to the middle the more tint there is.

= 11. What are “Tertiary colours”? =

Tertiary colours are colours you get when you mix secondary colors in even proportions

= 12. What is a “Colour Schemes”? =

Colours schemes are a planned out series of colours ex.) only using summer colours, or winter colours

= 13. Define “Saturation (intensity)”? =

It’s the overall intensity of a colour.

= 14. What are “Warm/cool colours”? =

Generally darker colours will be associated with cool EG. Blue, purple, green where as warm colours are red yellow and orange __**See 12 for example of warm and cool colors.**__

= 15. What is Contrast (colour contrast; value contrast) =

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Contrast is the difference between colours. (Opposites on the colours wheel work best [ complementary colours])



<span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%; text-align: left;">Citations Below:

Colour Wheel [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19, 2011, from <[|__http://www.d.umn.edu/~mharvey/colorwheel.jpg__]>

Value (tone) first picture [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YPFDDjQ_y_Y/SIEItcD007I/AAAAAAAABzc/sbaaygeobVo/s320/Tone_colors_value.jpg__]>

Complementary Colour Wheel [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://copiccreations.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/color-wheel-complementary-colors.gif__]>

Subtractive Colour Model [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://dpnow.com/images2/daily_tips/colour2.png__]>

Shade [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from

<[|__http://www.plazaperformance.ca/images/window-tint-levels.jpg__]>

Secondary Colours [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.cemca.org/maldives/images/mix.jpg__]>

Analogous Colours [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.webdesign.org/img_articles/1612/colors_analogous.gif__]>

Hue (Colour) [Photograph]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.uwgb.edu/heuerc/2D/Color_circle_(hue-sat).png__]>

Tint [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.worqx.com/color/images/shade-tint-wheel.jpg__]>

Tertiary Colours [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/colour_wheel.gif__]>

Colour Schemes first photo [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VtHqf8-QgBA/TQSQhXlJQiI/AAAAAAAAA9s/SLJoqAE5En0/s1600/purple%2Bcolour%2Bscheme.jpg__]>

Colour Schemes second photo [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VtHqf8-QgBA/TQSOvqck43I/AAAAAAAAA8U/vuPWNW2FLiw/s1600/orange%2Bcolour%2Bscheme.jpg__]>

Saturation (Intensity) [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://landisreed.com/pages/color-chips/Saturationdemo.png__]>

Contrast (colour contrast; value contrast) [Photography]

Retrieved September 19,2011,from <[|__http://www.lighthouse.org/images/content/accessibility/color_wheel_contrast.gif__]>