Choices of colour and the relationships between colours have a huge influence on how a piece or artArt refers to a diverse range of human intellectual and expressive activities and the outcomes of those activities. Within this context art is further defined... or designDesign shapes ideas to become practical solutions and propositions for customers and users. Design is all around us, everything man made has been designed. The... looks and feels and the emotions it provokes.
Colour is made up of different aspects. The most useful terms used to describe these aspects are probably: hueHue is an aspect of colour that is concerned with the yellowness, redness or blueness of a particular colour; there are over 150 discernible hues., toneThe relative lightness or darkness of a colour. E.g. Light, dark, tint, shade, black, white, grey, shadow, highlight, contrast, monotone, high key, low key. Tone..., saturationIs an aspect of colour concerned with its purity, richness or brilliance. Saturation can be high intensity or low intensity; it is sometimes referred to..., complementary, analogousIn a colour wheel, colours which are next to each other, such as red and orange; it is the opposite of complementary., tintA tint is an aspect of colour that has had white added (and is therefore a lighter tone) it is the 'opposite' of shade., shadeA shade is an aspect of colour that has had black added (and is therefore a darker tone) it is the 'opposite' of tint., primary and secondary.