Color_Vocabulary


 * Idioms **

To feel sad --> to feel blue  Special honours for a special or important person --> the red carpet  The market not controlled by the government --> the black market Complicated official procedures and forms --> red tape  Very clear and easy to understand --> in black and white Having money --> in the black  By surprise, unexpectedly --> out of the blue Owing money, in debt --> be in the red Something that is not true but causes no harm --> a white lie  The OK to start something --> the green light  Jealous of someone else's good fortune --> green with envy


 * Color **

Color, effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.

 This color wheel shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors across from each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other on the color wheel such as yellow, green and blue. Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color - black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.



Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Kind of color wheels **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">The artist's color wheel. This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints.



<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The subtractive color wheel. This color wheel uses the printing inks cyan, magenta, and yellow as primary colors. Note: Because cyan, magenta, and yellow inks do not combine to make black, the printing process adds black as a fourth ink.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Additive Color. This color wheel displays the additive colors used for projected light. When mixed together the additive primaries form white. The primaries are red, green and blue. These colors are extremely bright because light that is projected can be far more intense than printed color.




 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Value: Tints and Shades **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic (one=mono; color=chromatic).




 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Colors are often associated with moods. **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood." Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Natural color **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">Artists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Is black a color? Is white a color? **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">The colors we see are simply a degree of how much of this color present in light is reflected. To be completely accurate, a color reflects the wavelengths in the NM range that our retinal cones respond to. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> The medium is the process of reflection of the wavelength of the color. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> The receiver is our eyes which receive the wavelength of the color.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> Is black a color? <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> No, black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> Is white a color? <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> Yes, white is a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes.




 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Feng Shui Colors **

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;">Feng shui colors knowledge can allow you to choose the right colors to create harmony in any living or working space as well as it can be used with anything that involves choosing colors. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px;"> Feng Shui Colors affect people physically, emotionally and psychologically. By using just one of the Feng Shui Colors, or by combining two or more, you can strengthen the elements of Feng Shui. Feng Shui Colors are divided into the cool (Yin) and warm (Yang) areas because all things possess these two components and their balance creates wholeness.