Colour Theory Basic Vocabularies:

 

 

Primary colours: colours that can't be made from other colours.

e.g. [Red Blue Yellow]

 

Secondary colours: colours that are created by mixing primary colours. 

e.g. [Green Orange Purple]

•  Green = Blue + Yellow,
•  Orange = Red + Yellow,
•  Purple = Red + Blue.

 

Tertiary colour: a colour made from mixing primary and secondary colours together. 

e.g. Yellow-Orange, Red-Orange, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green.

 

Complementary colour: the opposite of a colour on the colour wheel.

Complementary Colour Wheel

here,

• Red - Green,
• Blue - Orange,
• Yellow - Purple / Violet

Analogous colours: any three colors side by side on the colour wheel. 

e.g. Green, Blue-Green, Yellow-Green

 

Warm colours: expresses passion, liveliness. 

e.g.  [Red Orange Yellow]  

Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow.

 

Cool colours: expresses calm, peacefulness. 

e.g. [Violet/Purple Blue Green] 

Red-Violet, Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue, Blue-Green, Green, Yellow-Green

 

Value: the varying degrees of dark and light