color pallet notes

Color Pallet

Color theory

·      Primary colors

·      Mix primary to get secondary

·      Mix secondary to get tertiary

Primary colors

·      Pigment generated colors are derived from Red yellow blue

·      When using light generations red green and yellow are the primary

Secondary

·    Created from the mixing of primary colors

·    Color spectrum is divided into warm and cool colors

·    Warm: yellow orange red

·    Cool: green blue white

Color modes:

·       Monochrome, tints, shades and tones of a single hue

·      Grey scale, black and white only

·      Web safe rgb, hexadecimal compatible 

Color Modification:

·      Tints, ad white to a pure tone

·      Shades, add a black tone to a pure hue

·      Tones, add gray hue to a pure color

Color Harmony:

·      Complementary colors, colors that are opposite from each other in the color wheel

·       Split complementary colors, colors that are opposite, then two over to the left 

·      Analogous colors are three colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel

·      Triad colors, 3 colors that use the three points of a triangle to decide color