1. What Is Color
Vocabulary

2. Additive Color
The process of mixing the colors of light together

3. Afterimage
A reaction seen when the observer’s brain supplies the opposite or complementary hue after the observer stares at a particular hue.

4. Arbitrary Color
The effect of color as produced by the artist imposing feelings on an object’s color.
This effect abandons natural color.

5. Color Wheels
A circular model showing color relationships.

6. Complementary Hue
Hues directly across from each other on the color wheel

7. Cones
Cells in the retina that are sensitive to bright light and color

8. Fovea
The area at the back of the retina that contains only cone cells and therefore is the area of sharpest color definition

9. Hues
The identification or name of a color

10. Light Wheel
A color wheel arrangement of hues that are the result of projected colored lights.
Its primaries are red, green, and blue, and this wheel is the basis for additive color

11. Local Color
The effect of color as seen in clear daylight

12. Munsell Wheel A color wheel with hues arranged based on afterimaging
Its principal colors are yellow, red, violet, blue, and green
This wheel is the basis for partitive color

13. Neutral
A color such as black, white, or gray that does not contain any pure hue

14. Optical Color
The effect of color as seen in lighting conditions other than white daylight, such as rain, sunrise, sunset, candlelight, etc

15. Partitive Color
The process of placing colors side by side to produce different reactions

16. Pigments
A powder that is in a binder which covers a surface or adheres to a surface
They provide color

17. Primary Colors A hue that cannot be obtained by mixing
Mixing these colors forms other hues and colors

18. Principal Colors
One of the five primary hues in Munsell’s color model (yellow, red, violet, blue, and green)

19. Process Wheel
A color wheel based on primary hues of yellow, magenta, and cyan
The wheel works with subtractive color and is used for color printing, photography, and certain types of ink manufacture

20. Retina
The light-sensitive inner lining of the back of the eye

21. Rods
Cells in the retina that are sensitive to dim light, but not to color

22. Saturation The relative purity of a hue
All pure hues are fully saturated

23. Secondary Color
A hue resulting from the mixing of a primary hue and an adjacent primary hue
Also termed intermediate hue

24. Subtractive Color
The process of mixing pigments together

25. Tertiary Colors
A hue that results from the mixing of a primary hue and an adjacent secondary hue

26. Texture
The quality of surface and its relative smoothness or roughness
It may be actual or implied

27. Values
The lightness or darkness of a color

28. Visible Spectrum
The range of colors that can be perceived by the human eye
When light is projected through a prism, the array order is: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet

29. Visual Wheel
A color wheel arrangement with the primaries yellow, red, blue and green
It is based on partitive color

30. Wavelengths A measure of light
The distance between crests in a wave of energy