basics

• primary: a real set of colorants; red, yellow, and blue
• secondary: mixing two primary colors; green, purple, orange
• tertiary: mixing primary and secondary colors
• hue: purest/brightest form
• tint: hue + white
• tone: hue + grey
• shade: hue + black
• color wheel
  • complemetary: opposite (red/green)
  • analogous: next to each other (blue/green)
  • triadic: evenly space around (green/puple/orange)
  • split-complementary: variation of complementary = in addition to base color, uses two colors adjacent to complement (green/fuchsia/orange)
  • rectangle/tectradic: four colors into two complementary pairs (red/yellow/green/blue)
  • square: similar to rectangle, but all colors spaced evenly (red/blue/green/yellow)

colors by shade

• black
• blue
• brown
• cyan
• green
• grey
• magenta
• orange
• pink
• purple
• red
• white
• yellow