The document discusses color terms and color schemes. It defines terms like hue, value, chroma, saturation, intensity, tint, shade, warm colors and cool colors. It also explains six basic color schemes - monochromatic, complementary, split complementary, analogous, triad and tetrad. These color schemes utilize different color combinations and relationships on the color wheel.

1. Assignment
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YAMINI SONI Miss SHALINI RAMANI

2. INDEX
COLOR TERMS
COLOR WHEEL
COLOR SCHEMES
Monochromatic
Complementary
Split Complementary
Related (Analogous)
Triad
Tetrad
COOL & WARM COLORS
TINT & SHADE
INTENSITY

3. 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.
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.

4. COLOR WHEEL

5. COLOR SCHEMES
Monochromatic Complementary
Split Related
Complementary (Analogous)
Triad Tetrad

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Tetrad Color Scheme
Tetradic color scheme: Tetrads are
any four colors with a logical
relationship on the color wheel, such
as double complements.

12. 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.

13. COO L CO LO R
WARM CO L O R

14. 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.

16. SATURATION or INTENSITY
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
100% Light (white)
50% Light (gray)
0% Light (black)