The document defines key color terminology including hue, value, shade, tint, and saturation. It describes how hue is the location of a color in the spectrum, value is the lightness or darkness, shade is when black is added to a hue, and tint is when white is added. It also explains different hue relationships such as complementary colors which are opposites on the color wheel, analogous colors which are side-by-side, triadic colors which are spaced 120 degrees apart, and monochromatic colors which share the same hue but vary in value. Complimentary color pairs are listed as red and green, and orange and blue.

1. COLOR

2. HUE
the location of the color within the
color spectrum
Sir Isaac newton discovered that a prism
separates light into a spectrum of colors,
red, blue, violet, indigo, etc.

3. VALUE
a color’s intrinsic lightness or darkness.
SHADE
when black is added to a hue.
If I add black to a hue the value becomes darker, but
the hue remains the same, above are shades of red.

4. TINT
a hue that has been altered by adding white.
Below are tints of red.

5. SATURATION
the relative purity color as it neutralizes to gray

6. HUE RELATIONSHIPS
COMPLIMENTARY
when two colors are opposite eachother on the
color wheel
ANALAGOUS
when colors are side-by-side on the color wheel.
TRIADIC
also called “split complementary,” these colors are
at 120 degree intervals on the color wheel. One color
compliments two colors that are the same distance
from it’s true compiment.
MONOCHROMATIC
a group of colors that share the same hue but can
be different values i.e. tints or shades

7. COMPLIMENTARY
red and
green
orange and
blue

8. ANALAGOUS

9. TRIADIC
MONOCHROMATIC