The basic colours, which are red, blue, and yellow. These three colours cannot be created by other colours when mixing, but they can create other colours by mixing with one another, for example; R+B=P.
secondary colors
The colours which came from the primary colours by using R+Y to get orange, Y+B to get green, or B+R to get purple. Secondary colours can be mixed with primary colours which create tertiary colours.
tertiary colors
The final colours in the colour wheel and its called tertiary colours. Tertiary colours are created by using secondary and primary colours, for example; G+Y= YG or B+P=BP. The colour wheel has a total of 12 colours which was created by using the three primary colours.
complementary colors
Colours that are opposite to each other, for example; red and green or orange and blue. When these colours are mixed it'll create a bright light colour, for example; R+G=Y or Y+P=R.
analogous colors
A group of three colours that are next to each other, in each group of three colours, one of them is the dominate colour which can be a primary, secondary, or tertiary. For example; orange, yellow, and orange-yellow.
triadic colors
Similar to the analogous colour because the triadic colour has a group of three colours, but the difference is that the three colours aren't next to each other but evenly spaced to one another. For example, violet-red, blue-green, and orange-yellow.
split complementary colors
The split complementary colour is like the complementary colour but doesn't use two opposite colour but use three colours and the difference in split complementary is that primary and secondary opposites are two tertiary and tertiary being a bit different because its opposite is not two primary/secondary but one primary and one secondary. For example; red, yellow-green, blue-green or green, red-violet, and red-orange or blue-violet, yellow, and orange.
rectangular (Tetradic) colour
A colour wheel that uses four colour from the rectangle edges. For example; 2x secondary and 2x primary or 2x tertiary and 2x tertiary.
Square color
It's the same as the rectangular colour, but just in a square shape, and the four colours are the edges of the square. For example; red, blue-violet, green, and orange-yellow.
warm colours
The listed warm colours are red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, and yellow-green. The colours represents comfort and warmth to hostility and anger.
Cool colours
The listed cool colours are green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet, red-violet. The colours are represented as calmness or sadness.
neutral colours
neutral colours are also known as without colours. Such as beige, ivory, taupe, black, grey, and shades of white appears to be without colours, but they're put in another way as undertones.
monochromatic colors
Using one colour, for example; red and toning/tinting it darker or lighter. Tint is achieved by adding white. Shade is achieved by adding grey or black.
hue
The word hue means colour or shade, depends on how you put it into sentence. For example; the boys lost their favourite hue.
saturation
its using a colour to its full brightness so it stands out, more like a fantasy world where farms are pretty, but actually in reality its not. Having a poster with bright colours so it stands our and people can see your message to them.
Tints and shades
tints is mixing colours with white to increase lightness and shades is mixing colours with black to reduce lightness. Tone is created by mixture of colours with grey or by both tinting and shading.
Luminance or value
It measures the percentage of a colour and describes the brightness of a colour. You can change the value by adjusting its lightness by increasing or reducing.
cmyk colour system used in printing
CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). They're the four inks used for colour printing and describes how the colour printing process itself.
additive color system (RGB)
Using red, blue, and green gives you a additive colour which are cyan, magenta, or yellow and doing the opposite gives you the subtractive colour.
pantone color
PMS is used in variety of industries, primarily printing, although manufactured in colour painting, fabric, or plastics. PMS stands for Pantone Matching System.
part 2
The colour RED
Red, the colour of blood and fire, is associated with meanings of love, passion, anger, determination, danger, etc. To me, red is a colour which is anger, love, and being emotional.
Red was seen as blood and fire by our ancestors and even to this day it carries on and you will see later what i mean by that when i talk about my 'cultural connections'.
Cultural connections- The Karen flag has three colours, red, blue, and white. Red for instance, signifies braveness, blue represents faithfulness, and white representing purity. As you can see from the flag, the sun has 9 beaming red lights and those lights represents the 9 areas in Burma, claimed by the Karen people. Our elders say " We Are Karen Red Blood," which means they aren't afraid to shed their blood for liberty and I probably know our ancestor said the same to our elders because the war between Burma and Karens have been ongoing for 60 years and still is ongoing.
Red variations- red, magenta, ruby, rust, scarlet, flame, rose, etc.
Phrase- Red light, shining through this gloomy night, don't be fright, Sir Dracula will be your groom for tonight.
Song- Taylor Swift - Red - "And that's why he's spinning 'round in my head - Comes back to me, burning red."
Red is used in many marketing and branding, such as it being used by Target, Canon, and Coca Cola Company.
Target- In 1962, the PR team came up with 200 names for the store and logo design, debates after another, but on a red and white whim they came up with "Target" and envisioned three red rims. Over the past years the logo has been changed time to time. Today, Target logo is a red dot in the middle and one red rim.
Canon- In 1934, the name for Canon was Kwanon, the goddess of mercy. Pronouncing the words with different spelling sounds the same. When the company decided to expand, they decided to change Kwanon to Canon and over the past years the Canon logo has changed design and colour but the name Canon has not changed.
Coca Cola- In 1884, John S Pemberton create the formula for his new drink, and his partner, Frank M Robinson, suggested his new drink should be called "Coca Cola," Frank said "the two Cs would look well in advertising." Over the past years the Coca Cola name wasn't changed but the logo was, the logo was in black colour and was designed by using shapes, but now the logo colour is in red.