Friday, 14 June 2019

IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS ABOUT THE COLOUR


COLOUR: It is a basic element of visual language. It is a light expression that arrives to the eyes which send the information to the brain.
PIGMENT: It is the sustance that make materials for paint and the origin can be mineral, animal or vegetal.
HUE: Also called Tone or tint, it is the name of the colour defined by its wavelength.
SATURATION: Degree of purity of a colour. If a colour is very saturated it means that is very pure and doesn't have many colours in its mix.
VALUE: Sometimes called brightness or luminosity. It is the amount of black or white that a colour has in its mix.
✔ COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS: They are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out by producing a grayscale color like white or black.
 WARM RANGEIt is a scale of colours that has more yellow or magenta or both in its mixture than cyan. They express warm energy.
 COLD RANGEIt is a scale of colours that has more cyan in its mixture than any other colour. They transmit the temperature sensation of cold. GREY SCALE: It is a set of colours which only has any colour between black and white, it contains a scale of greys.

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