PRIMARY COLORS: red, blue, yellow SECONDARY COLORS: The colors created from mixing an equal amount...

PRIMARY COLORS: red, blue, yellow

SECONDARY COLORS: The colors created from mixing an equal amount of 2 primary colors.

TRIAD COLORS: Pegging 3 colors on the color wheel that make an isosceles triangle

COMPOUND COLORS:Compound colors are mixed from all three primaries. They are all the Ocher's, earth colors Khaki's etc. In this example mixing between yellow and Violet produces a series of compound colors. They contain varying mixtures of all three primaries (Violet being a mixture of Red and Blue).

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS:Two colors opposite on the color wheel 

MONOCHROMATIC COLORS:Focus on one color with varied intensity and lightness in a single hue.

ANALOGOUS COLORS: Match colors with adjacent (side by side) colors 

WARM & COOL COLORS:

SHADES OF COLOR:Creating subtle variations with a color’s hue

CUSTOM: You have been assigned to create a color scheme for four walls of a new art room. This color scheme needs to be 4 different colors. This should be a “favorite way” for you to put 4 colors together. http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromacolor