Graphic Design Worksheet: Colour Schemes
Creator's tip (Round the wheel): Paint primaries: red, yellow, blue. Red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, red + blue = purple. Complementary = opposite (180° apart); analogous = neighbours; monochrome = one colour; triadic = 120° apart. Tint = colour + white; shade = colour + black. Warm: reds, oranges, yellows. Cool: blues, greens, purples.
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- 1.🌈 Warm or cool: yellow-orange? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 2.🌈 Which colour scheme is “red and red-orange”? (a) monochrome (b) complementary (c) analogous (d) triadic
- 3.Which of these is an analogous scheme? (a) red, yellow and blue (b) orange, green and purple (c) blue with orange (d) blue and blue-green
- 4.🎨 On a six-colour wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), which colour is opposite blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
- 5.Which of these is a triadic scheme? (a) red, yellow and blue (b) red with green (c) red and red-orange (d) blue with orange
- 6.🎨 Triadic colours are 120° apart on a colour wheel. One is at 180° and the next at 300°. At how many degrees is the third?
- 7.🌈 Adding black to a colour makes a … (a) margin (b) shade (c) font (d) tint
- 8.Which of these is an analogous scheme? (a) blue with orange (b) red with green (c) yellow and yellow-green (d) light and dark blues
- 9.🌈 Which colour scheme is “yellow with purple”? (a) analogous (b) complementary (c) triadic (d) monochrome
- 10.Which of these is an analogous scheme? (a) red and red-orange (b) pale to deep red (c) three shades of green (d) light and dark blues
- 11.🌈 Which colour scheme is “light and dark blues”? (a) triadic (b) analogous (c) monochrome (d) complementary
- 12.🌈 Warm or cool: orange? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 13.🌈 The three primary colours of paint are … (a) green, pink and black (b) white, grey and black (c) red, yellow and blue (d) orange, green, purple
- 14.🌈 Which colour scheme is “red, yellow and blue”? (a) complementary (b) analogous (c) triadic (d) monochrome
- 15.True or false: green is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🎨 On a six-colour wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), which colour is opposite yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) green
- 17.🌈 Warm or cool: red? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 18.🎨 Triadic colours are 120° apart on a colour wheel. One is at 90° and the next at 210°. At how many degrees is the third?
- 19.🌈 Which colour scheme is “blue and blue-green”? (a) analogous (b) complementary (c) triadic (d) monochrome
- 20.True or false: red-orange is a warm colour. (a) True (b) False
- 21.🌈 Which colour scheme is “blue with orange”? (a) analogous (b) complementary (c) monochrome (d) triadic
- 22.🎨 Triadic colours are 120° apart on a colour wheel. One is at 0° and the next at 120°. At how many degrees is the third?
- 23.Which of these is a complementary scheme? (a) pale to deep red (b) light and dark blues (c) red, yellow and blue (d) yellow with purple
- 24.🌈 Warm or cool: red-orange? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 25.🎨 On a six-colour wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), which colour is opposite red? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
- 26.🎨 On a six-colour wheel (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), which colour is opposite orange? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) purple
- 27.True or false: orange is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🎨 A colour sits at 300° on a colour wheel. At how many degrees is its complementary colour (exactly opposite)?
- 29.🌈 Screens make every colour by mixing light of … (a) red, green and blue (b) black and white only (c) red, yellow and blue (d) orange and purple
- 30.🎨 A colour sits at 60° on a colour wheel. At how many degrees is its complementary colour (exactly opposite)?
- 31.🎨 In paint, mixing yellow and blue makes which colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) brown (d) purple
- 32.True or false: blue is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🎨 Triadic colours are 120° apart on a colour wheel. One is at 240° and the next at 0°. At how many degrees is the third?
- 34.True or false: blue-green is a cool colour. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🌈 Warm or cool: purple? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 36.🎨 A colour sits at 180° on a colour wheel. At how many degrees is its complementary colour (exactly opposite)?
- 37.🌈 Warm or cool: yellow? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 38.🌈 Adding white to a colour makes a … (a) shade (b) tint (c) pixel (d) border
- 39.🎨 A colour sits at 270° on a colour wheel. At how many degrees is its complementary colour (exactly opposite)?
- 40.🌈 Warm or cool: blue? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
Answer key
- warm colour
- analogous
- blue and blue-green
- orange
- red, yellow and blue
- 60
- shade
- yellow and yellow-green
- complementary
- red and red-orange
- monochrome
- warm colour
- red, yellow and blue
- triadic
- True
- purple
- warm colour
- 330
- analogous
- True
- complementary
- 240
- yellow with purple
- warm colour
- green
- blue
- False
- 120
- red, green and blue
- 240
- green
- True
- 120
- True
- cool colour
- 0
- warm colour
- tint
- 90
- cool colour
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