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What is the difference between shade and tint?
Shade is a colour produced by the addition of black. Tint is a colour produced by the addition of white.

What is the colour system used for printing?
The Printers' color triangle, which uses cyan, magenta and yellow as the primary colours.

How can you ensure proper colour rendering in print?


What are complementary colours? Give an example
Colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel. Red and Green complement each other.

What are tertiary colours? Give an example
Colours achieved by a mixture of primary and secondary colours, such as yellow and orange mixed together to create a yellowish orange.

What is meant by a visually advancing colour?

What could cause vibrating boundaries to occur?
Bringing opposing colours together.

How can you find a complementary colour without a colour wheel?

What is an after image?
Its the image you see after looking at a hue for a prolonged period.

What is a monochromatic colour relationship?

What is an analogous colour relationship?
Colours located adjacent to each other on a colour wheel.

What is contrast?
When colours oppose each other and make each other stand out.

What could cause simultaneous contrast to occur?

Name and describe three of Itten’s Colour Contrasts
Contrast of saturation-contrast is formed by the juxtaposition of light and dark values and their relative saturation.
Contrast of light and dark-contrast is formed by the juxtaposition of light and dark values. This could be a monochromatic composition.
Contrast of extension-contrast is formed by assigning proportional field sizes in relation to the visual weight of a color.

How do you determine the dominant colour?
The colour with largest proportion.

How can you create an accent with colour?
Colours with a small relative area, but offer a contrast because of a variation in hue, intensity, or saturation.

What is the difference between contrast dominant and value dominant?

What is one method of identifying possible options for colour schemes?