The document discusses the key properties and types of color, including hue, saturation, and value. It defines primary colors as yellow, cyan, and magenta, secondary colors as green, violet and orange, and tertiary colors as mixtures of primary and secondary colors. The document also covers complementary colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, analogous colors that are next to each other, and how to create harmony using warm/cold colors, analogous/complementary colors, and through value and saturation contrast.

1. THE COLOUR

3. Types of colour

4. Colour Properties
Hue
The name
Saturation
Vividness, strength
Value
Lightness or darkness

5. Colour contrast

6. Which are the cold colours?
And the warm ones?

7. Colour Wheel
Cold
range of
colours
Warm
range of
colours

8. Which are the primary colours?

9. Primary colours
Yellow
Cyan
Magenta

10. Which are the secondary colours?

11. Secondary colours
Green
Violet
Orange

12. Which are the tertiary colours?

13. Tertiary colours
Yellow
+
Green
Cyan + Violet
Magenta
+
Orange
Magenta + Violet
Yellow
+
Orange
Cyan
+
Green

14. Which are the complementary
colours?

15. Complementary colours

16. Which are the related or
analogous colours?

17. Analogous or Related colours

18.  Warm colours harmony  Cold colours harmony
Colour harmony

19.  Analogous colours harmony  Complementary colours harmony

20.  Homogeneous value  Value contrast
Value Contrast

21.  Low saturation contrast  High saturation contrast
Saturation Contrast