It’s farther away from 0 true neutral gray. What the numbers indicate and what the scale illustrates is how strong and colorful these purple-blues are -or- how weak and closer to a true neutral gray they are.Īgain referencing the Colorographies, you can see that Hale Navy is the weakest, it’s closer to a true neutral gray of the same intensity.Īdmiral is the strongest and most colorful. The Chroma scale draws a picture of Chroma for you so the differences are easy to see at-a-glance and understand quickly. When we study their Chroma, we can see that Hale Navy has the lowest Chroma value, 1.51.Īdmiral Blue has the most Chroma of the three coming in at 4.26. When we look at Hue, we can see that all three colors belong to the Purple-Blue (PB) hue family. In this case study, you will want to focus on two parts of the Colorographies: However, if you’re up at the lighter end of the Value pole where it starts to turn white, then you are comparing colors to neutral whites to determine Chroma.Īs “colors” get less chromatic, they get closer to a true neutral gray.Īs “colors of white” get less chromatic, they get closer to a true neutral white.ĪN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ABOUT HOW CHROMA WORKS Which means most of the time you are comparing a color to a neutral gray to determine its Chroma. Here’s a graphic that illustrates what I’m talking about. There is no limit on how high Chroma can go. You do that for each row of colors – you compare each color to the neutral on the Value pole that they line up with -AND- the colors are ordered in perceptually uniform steps. To determine the Chroma for all the blue squares in that string, you have to compare them to that neutral gray chip on the value pole. Now, at the beginning of the pink arrow do you see the gray chip that’s on the value pole in the middle? See the pink arrow under the word “Chroma” in the graphic that runs along a string of blue squares? In other words, Chroma needs friends and family in order to have meaning. You can only determine Chroma by comparing a color to a neutral color that has the same value and other colors. Because they are different – altho both terms speak to a scale of vivid color to true neutral. Especially when it involves differentiating Chroma from Saturation.
The definition of Chroma can get kinda complicated.
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