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2D Design (Art 107) Color Terminology: Hue Is The Traditional Color "Name", Such As Red, Which Represents A Specific

The document provides definitions for color terminology used in art, including hue, value, tint, shade, intensity, tone, local color, and complementary hue. It explains that hue refers to the color name like red or blue, value is the lightness or darkness of a hue, and tint and shade are hues lightened or darkened by adding white or black. Intensity is the purity of a hue, and a tone is a hue with reduced intensity created by adding gray or its complement color.

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2D Design (Art 107) Color Terminology: Hue Is The Traditional Color "Name", Such As Red, Which Represents A Specific

The document provides definitions for color terminology used in art, including hue, value, tint, shade, intensity, tone, local color, and complementary hue. It explains that hue refers to the color name like red or blue, value is the lightness or darkness of a hue, and tint and shade are hues lightened or darkened by adding white or black. Intensity is the purity of a hue, and a tone is a hue with reduced intensity created by adding gray or its complement color.

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Assignment:

DRAFTING [Friday ang deadline(?)]


- Draw any object using the alphabet of lines.
- Draw any object and color it with the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Divide the paper into
two (there should be similar object drawn) and color the first object with crayons (8 colors lang ata
ang gagamitin) and the 2nd using water color.
- Same goes to value, hue and intensity. No need to draw an object. I'm not sure if kelangan ding
hatiin to sa dalawa. Pero baka water color lang.
(SA SKETCH PAD PO ITO LAHAT.)

2D Design (Art 107)


Color Terminology
As in many others areas of knowledge, Color has its own set of terms which convey
specific meaning and which may not always coincide with common usage of a term.
Hue is the traditional color name, such as red, which represents a specific
wavelength of visible light. In most instances color and hue are used interchangably
even though they do not exactly mean the same thing or refer to the same
phenomenon. The hues in the spectrum are traditionally listed as red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo and violet. ROYGBIV is a common mnemonic for remembering
the order of colored light in the spectrum. Black, white and the grays produced from
them are not usually considered to be hues. The average eye can differentiate
approximately 150 different hues.

Value: Color also has value, i.e. a relative degree of lightness or darkness. Most colors
are recognizable in a full range of values; e.g. we identify as a form of red
everything from the palest pink to the darkest maroon. Even though we assign
different names to the different values of red we still know that they are derived from
red. All hues have a normal value; the lightness or darkness of that hue as it appears in
the spectrum. Yellow, for example, is a light-valued color while violet is a dark-valued
color. As a result, there will be an uneven range of light or dark values for each hue.

Tint is the term used to describe a hue that has been lighted in value from its normal
value. Pink is tint of red. Tints are achieved by mixing white with a pigment or by
using a pigment in a dilute form to allow for the white of the ground to show through.
Shade is the term used to describe a hue that has be darkened in value from its normal
value. Maroon is a shade of red. Shades are achieved by mixing black with a pigment.

NOTE This use of the term shade is specific to color theory. In common usage a
shade is usually a variation in color of a hue. To say your coat is a nice shade of
blue usually means that your coat is not true blue but some blend of blue with other
colors.
Intensity refers to the purity of a hue. Intensity is also known
as Chroma or Saturation. The highest intensity or purity of a hue is the hue as it
appears in the spectrum or on the color wheel. A hue reduced in intensity is called
a Tone. A tone is a hue with reduced or dulled strength.

A tone of a hue is created in two ways;


1. By adding a neutral gray, equal in value to the hue. For example, a light gray added
to yellow or a medium gray added to red or a dark gray added to violet.
2. By adding its complement.
Tones that have their intensity reduced almost to the point of appearing gray are
referred to as a Chromatic Gray.
Local Color referrs to the natural hue/color of something independent of any lighting
conditions. For example, the local color of a STOP sign is red; grass is green, the sky
is blue.
Complementary Hue: In most color systems the complement of a hue is the hue
directly opposite it on the color wheel. For example, in the Prang system green is the

complement of red, yellow the complement of violet and orange the complement of
blue. The dictionary defines complement as something that fills in or makes up
what is lacking.
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