This document discusses the properties and types of color. It defines hue as the name of a color, saturation as its vividness or strength, and value as its lightness or darkness. It also explains the color wheel and the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. The document concludes by covering complementary colors and the principles of analogous and complementary color harmony in design.

1. THE COLOUR
UNIT 5 (BOOK UNIT 5)

3. How the eye sees the colours

5. Types of colour

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

7. Colour contrast

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

9. Primary colours
Yellow
Cyan
Magenta

10. Secondary colours
Green
Violet
Orange

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

12. Complementary colours

13. Colour harmony
 Analogous colours harmony  Complementary colours harmony

14.  Analogous colours harmony  Complementary colours harmony

15.  Analogous colours harmony
 Homogeneous value
 Complementary colours harmony
 Low saturation contrast

16.  Analogous colours harmony
 Value contrast
 Complementary colours harmony
 High saturation contrast