This document provides color terms and definitions for warm and cool colors. For warm colors like magenta and red, it lists examples of how they can be perceived. It also defines key color terms including hue, tint, tone, shade, value, intensity, saturation, and achromatic colors.
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Colornotes
This document provides color terms and definitions for warm and cool colors. For warm colors like magenta and red, it lists examples of how they can be perceived. It also defines key color terms including hue, tint, tone, shade, value, intensity, saturation, and achromatic colors.
Hue: Pure color without the addition of black, white, or gray
Tint: Color with white added. Tone: Color with gray or its complement added. Shade: Color with black added. Value: The relative darkness or lightness of a color.
Intensity: The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it
lacks its complementary color.
Saturation: Vividness of hue; degree of difference from a gray of the
same lightness or brightness. Achromatic: Designating color perceived to have zero saturation and therefore no hue, such as neutral grays, white, or black.