Color

The psychological impact of colors can be determined by the age, gender, culture, and life experiences of people.
Each color can bring up different feelings for a person. for an example red could mean power, danger, fire, strength, or even passion. Green is often refreshing, cool, or even peaceful. Violet is dignified and dramatic.
There are 3 secondary colors orange, green, and violet. Orange is a mixture or red and yellow. Green is a mixture of yellow and blue. Violet is a mixture of blue and red.
Yellow-green is an example of a tertiary color. Another name for tertiary color is intermediate color.
Value of a hue is the relative lightness or darkness of a color. Intensity is the brightness or dullness of a hue.
The differences between tints, shade, and tone is that tint adds white to a hue, shade adds black to a hue, and tone adds grey to a hue.
When adding a neutral color to a hue the value will change either a tint or a shade making the color less intense.
Colors are often separated by warm and cool colors. Red and yellow are an example of warm colors, Blue and violet are cool colors.
Monochromatic colors: like variations of a tan color. Complementary colors: Blue and orange. Split Complementary colors: blue-violet, red-violet, and yellow. Split complementary colors: red, yellow, blue. Analogous: warm or cool colors. Neutral: black,white, grey.
Factors that influence the way color harmonies are used are the mood or style a person wants, lifestyle of family, function of the room, items in the room, and rooms location.
Color guidelines are apply color to large areas to make them appear to grain intensity, use contrast colors to draw attention, color harmonies are easier on the eye when one color dominates, heavily textured objects make the color appear darker, if room is large use colors that will make room seem smaller, and if room is smaller use colors to make the room seem bigger.