Color Theory Quiz

The device we use to organize colors and their relationships to each other:

• Color wheel

• Color palette

• Color chart

• Color spectrum

The primary colors are ________________, ________________, and ________________.

• green

• red

• orange

• yellow

• blue

Secondary colors are ________________, ________________, and ________________.

• orange

• green

• violet

• red

• blue

These kinds of colors cannot be “made;” rather they make up all other colors: ________________.

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• complementary

Colors that are made up of a primary and secondary color are called ________________ colors. An example would be ________________.

• tertiary

• yellow-green

• primary

• secondary

• complementary

A color scheme based around opposites on the color wheel: ________________.

• complementary

• analogous

• monochromatic

• triadic

A color scheme based around one hue: ________________.

• monochromatic

• complementary

• analogous

• triadic

Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel are ________________.

• analogous

• complementary

• triadic

• split-complementary

Adding white to a color creates a ________________.

• tint

• shade

• tone

• hue

Adding black to a color creates a ________________.

• shade

• tint

• tone

• hue