Aesthetics Final Test Questions &
Answers 2024/2025
Analogous color scheme: - ANSWERS- Adds visual interest and variety
- Located near each other on the color wheel
Complementary color scheme: - ANSWERS- Opposite in temperature
- Located opposite each other on the color wheel
- Creates vibrating boundaries (where they meet)
- Desaturate each other (more "neutral mutes")
- Creates simultaneous contrast (colors take on the surrounding
colors)
- Create optical mixing (muted affects when viewed from a distance)
Triadic color scheme: - ANSWERS- Achieved my placing an equilateral triangle over the color wheel
Primary colors: - ANSWERS- Red, yellow, and blue
- May be mixed to create every color in the spectrum
- Nothing can be mixed together to create them
Secondary colors: - ANSWERS- Mixing the primary colors to create other colors
- Green, violet, orange
Saturation: - ANSWERS- A color is fully saturated when it can hold no more chroma or color (the
brightest a color can be)
Shade: - ANSWERS- Adding black to a color to make it darker
, Tint: - ANSWERS- Adding white to a color to make it lighter
Additive color: - ANSWERS- Mixing the primary set of red, green, and blue together creates
white light
- RGB is used with light-based media, like film, computer screens and
television, display lighting and stage lighting
Subtractive color: - ANSWERS- Mixing cyan, magenta and yellow together all the light is
subtracted creating black
- Mixing use of pigment then each color partially or completely
subtracts (absorbs) some wavelengths of light and not others
- Example: black absorbs all colors (light) and white reflects all
colors (light)
- The color we see is reflected to the eye while all other colors of
light are absorbed
Color psychology: - ANSWERS- Colors carry many subconscious meanings and associations as
well, often conflicting
- These meanings may be further complicated by cultural differences
Red - ANSWERSo Positives: passion, love, desire, energy, power, courage, luck,
fortune
o Negatives: war, danger, anger, anxiety, aggression
Blue - ANSWERSo Positives: tranquility, calmness, expertise, healing, stability,
dependability
o Negatives: cold, removed, distant, sadness, depression
Yellow - ANSWERSo Positives: happiness, joy, concentration, royalty (china)
Answers 2024/2025
Analogous color scheme: - ANSWERS- Adds visual interest and variety
- Located near each other on the color wheel
Complementary color scheme: - ANSWERS- Opposite in temperature
- Located opposite each other on the color wheel
- Creates vibrating boundaries (where they meet)
- Desaturate each other (more "neutral mutes")
- Creates simultaneous contrast (colors take on the surrounding
colors)
- Create optical mixing (muted affects when viewed from a distance)
Triadic color scheme: - ANSWERS- Achieved my placing an equilateral triangle over the color wheel
Primary colors: - ANSWERS- Red, yellow, and blue
- May be mixed to create every color in the spectrum
- Nothing can be mixed together to create them
Secondary colors: - ANSWERS- Mixing the primary colors to create other colors
- Green, violet, orange
Saturation: - ANSWERS- A color is fully saturated when it can hold no more chroma or color (the
brightest a color can be)
Shade: - ANSWERS- Adding black to a color to make it darker
, Tint: - ANSWERS- Adding white to a color to make it lighter
Additive color: - ANSWERS- Mixing the primary set of red, green, and blue together creates
white light
- RGB is used with light-based media, like film, computer screens and
television, display lighting and stage lighting
Subtractive color: - ANSWERS- Mixing cyan, magenta and yellow together all the light is
subtracted creating black
- Mixing use of pigment then each color partially or completely
subtracts (absorbs) some wavelengths of light and not others
- Example: black absorbs all colors (light) and white reflects all
colors (light)
- The color we see is reflected to the eye while all other colors of
light are absorbed
Color psychology: - ANSWERS- Colors carry many subconscious meanings and associations as
well, often conflicting
- These meanings may be further complicated by cultural differences
Red - ANSWERSo Positives: passion, love, desire, energy, power, courage, luck,
fortune
o Negatives: war, danger, anger, anxiety, aggression
Blue - ANSWERSo Positives: tranquility, calmness, expertise, healing, stability,
dependability
o Negatives: cold, removed, distant, sadness, depression
Yellow - ANSWERSo Positives: happiness, joy, concentration, royalty (china)
