Pink is a light red hue and is typically associated with love and romance. It is often described as a feminine color, perhaps due to associations people form during early childhood. "Girls toys" are usually pink and purple, while "boys toys" are often red, yellow, green, or blue.
Color itself has three primary qualities: Hue, Chroma, and Value, also known as Hue, Saturation and Lightness.
In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative saturation. This moves the mixed color toward a neutral color—a gray or near-black.
Color has three properties: hue, intensity (also called saturation), and value .
Psychologically pure colors are colors that exhibit a homogeneous appearance on some dimension of perceived color. Highly saturated colors appear to have low achromatic content or to be more intensely chromatic. In the achromatic domain, the lightness dimension runs from light to dark.
Intensity (also called chroma or saturation) is the brightness or dullness of a color. A color as we see it on a color wheel is at full intensity (bright).
Achromatic colors are qualities like white, grey, black, and the luminous qualities seen in stars and in lamps emitting “white†light. They occur in scotopic as well as in photopic vision, and an achromatic aspect is involved in all kinds of chromatic colors of both normal and defective color vision.
Complementary colors are hues that contrast with each other and are positioned exactly opposite one another on the color wheel. The color wheel is an arrangement of all colors on the spectrum based on their relationships, and it's useful in creating harmonious color schemes.
The properties of color are hue, saturation, brightness and temperature. Now Hue is what color it is, so is it red, yellow, green, blue or violet? Saturation also known as intensity refers to how much of a color there is, how rich, how intense, how much pigment versus how grey – also known as 'desaturated'.
Shade is a hue or mixture of pure colors to which only black is added. It contains no white or gray. Shade darkens the color, but the hue remains the same. When mixing a shade, begin with the color itself then add black one drop at a time.
The seven major color schemes are monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, square, and rectange (or tetradic).
