Gamblin Artists Colors
Color Glossary


Hue - One of the three attributes of color, which distinguishes red from green, blue from yellow, and so forth.

Value - An attribute of color used in the Munsell System to indicate the lightness of an object viewed in daylight, on a scale from 0 for the ideal black to 10 for the ideal white, in steps that are visually equal.

Chroma - Attribute of color used in the Munsell color system to indicate the degree of departure from a gray of the same value. Correlates with the dimension of saturation.

Hue Temp - The temperature of a color within its hue, either warm (towards red) or cool (towards blue).

For more information, please visit the Munsell Color Standards.


  
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