If black, white or grey is added to a color, it is a less pure color. Saturation is the relative purity of a color. As the light brightens or darkens the white area, it brightens or darkens the color areas that are similarly illuminated by exactly the same amount. A value is determined by how light or dark it is relative to a similarly lit white area. The reason that value is unchanging is because of the way that it is scientifically defined.

We all know that if you take a photo in bright light the colors will look very different than if the same picture was taken when it is dark.

Like hue, value is also a quantitative property of a color. If you add black to a color is gets darker and we call it a shade. If you add white to the color it gets lighter and we call it a tint. Value, or the lightness and darkness of a color, is also a fairly straightforward concept. Whatever the hue is for a particular color, it never changes. We call hue a quantitative property of a color. The answer is, for most browns, the hue is orange. For example, I had to Google what the hue of a brown is. While the concept is easy, figuring out the hue for a particular color may or may not be easy. There are three properties: hue, value (brightness) and saturation. Since this is the end of my observations on the properties of color, let’s do a little re-cap. In light of the Christmas holidays being celebrated by many people around the world, this week and next week the blog will both begin and end with a short observation about color theory. In recent weeks, the blog has finished with a little observation about color theory.

Hue chroma value