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What is a Color Wheel?
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Color Wheel is a circle showing the relationship between 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colors.
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What is Pantone?
Pantone or 'Pantone Matching System' is a proprietary color system of colors used to match colors in print design.
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What is Hex?
Hex is a color code used in HTML, CSS and design software. Colors are defined by a pound sign (#) followed by six-digit combination of letters and numbers.
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What is Hue?
Hue is any pure color on the color wheel, such as red, blue or green.
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What is Chroma?
Chroma is the purity or brightness of a color with no black, white or gray added.
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What is Shade?
Shade is a variety of a color created by adding black to a hue. This creates deeper, dark colors.
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What is Tone?
Tone is a variety of a color created by adding black and white, or gray, to a hue. This creates a duller, less intense version of a pure color.
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What is Tint?
Tint is a variety of a color created by adding white to a hue. This creates lighter colors, such as pastels.
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What is Grayscale?
Grayscale is a monochromatic range of gray shades.
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What is Monochrome?
Monochrome is a color scheme based on one color or different shades of a single color.
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What is a Complementary Color?
A complementary color scheme is based on two opposite colors on the color wheel.
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What is an Analogous Color?
Analogous color schemes are based on three colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
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What is Triadic?
A triadic color scheme is based on three colors evenly spaced apart on the color wheel. The dominant color and two accent colors create a triangle on the color wheel.
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What is a Gradient?
A gradient is a gradual transition or fade from one color to another. Common gradient techniques are radial, when one color is positioned in the center, or linear, when colors are on opposite ends.
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What is Saturation?
Saturation is the brightness or intensity of a hue in an image or design. The more saturated, the more pure and vivid the color appears.
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What is Opacity?
Opacity is the degree of transparency of a design element. Lower opacities achieve more transparency whereas 100 percent opacity achieves a solid text or image.
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What is CMYK?
CMYK stands for the primary colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and key (or black), this is the four-color model typically used for printing, achieved by mixing the colors together.
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What is RGB?
RGB stands for the primary colors of red, blue and green, these are the colors displayed on a digital screen.
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What is a Palette?
A palette is the range of colors chosen for an illustration or design. Colors are typically harmonious with one another for an aesthetically pleasing look.
