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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ives color wheel | The most common color wheel |
| Neutral colors | colors used to alter pure hues; black, gray and white |
| Hue | a pure color without the addition of white, black or gray |
| Value | the amount of light reflected by a hue |
| Shade | color with black added; a darker color |
| Intensity | how bright a color is |
| Tone | color with gray or its complement added or a duller tone |
| Complementary colors | colors opposite each other on the color wheel |
| Tint | color with white added or a lighter color |
| Monochromatic Scheme | uses all one family of colors such as blue and all its assorted shades, tints and tones |
| Complementary Scheme | uses colors that are opposite on the color wheel |
| Analogous Scheme | uses three adjacent colors on the color wheel |
| Split-Complement Scheme | This color plan uses three colors; it selects a particular key color and also uses the two colors, one to the right and one to the left of the key color's complementary color. |
| Triadic Scheme | uses three colors that are equally spaced on the wheel |
| Warm color Scheme | colors in the red, orange, and yellow color family; seem to move toward the viewer |
| Cool color scheme | colors in the green, blue, and violet color family; seem to move back from viewer |
| Local color | Colors seen under the normal lighting conditions such as sunlight |
| Optical color | Colors seen under unusual lighting conditions such as firelight, black light or moonlight |
| Arbitrary color | colors used for meaning without regard to their natural place |
| Bauhaus | A German/Austrian art movement based on the ideas of simplicity, understandability, and is famous for the idea that an object should like what it does, or "Form follows function." |
| Color vibration | The illusion of movement that occurs when two complementary colors touch |
| Retinal adaption | The process by which the cells in the eye receive information about one color and block infromation about another color |
| Match effect | the illusion of changes in values when colors interact |
| Bezold effect | the phenomenon of the eye and brain visually mixing two separate colors |
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