![]() This page allows you to specify (create) individual colors, or create a set of 5 colors for a color palette. Suffice it to say that Kuler's HSV is similar to Hue, Chroma, Value, but eventually we'll discover significant differences.Ī) Make sure you're on the "Create From a Color" page, as illustrated to the left. HSV is useful for digitally specifying color, but HVC is more true to the visual experience of color and the process of developing color harmonies. ![]() Saturation, here, is not fully consistent with Chroma, but the differences are difficult to explain without exploring the nature of digital color models, digital display devices and, in contrast, human vision and the phenomenon of Intrinsic Value, as represented in the Munsell Color Solid. Kuler allows you to manipulate colors using several different color models.įor our purposes, there are some problems with HSV. Playing with Hue, Value and Saturation: Adobe's Kuler Kuler offers color designers some really interesting tools for playing with color. There are 50+ colors here, but all of them are orange-hued colors. There are 60+ colors here, but all of them are purple-hued colors. ![]() This is a Munsell constant hue chart - a slice or a plane of the Munsell color solid. Hues change as you move around the center.Ĭhroma changes as you move from the center outward. In the Munsell Color Solid (the Munsell 3D color model, above), White is a light value or high value.Ĭhroma: the quality of a color's purity, intensity or saturation.Ī gray color is a neutral - an extreme low chroma.įire-engine red may be a high-chroma red. That is, black is a dark value or low value. Value: the quality lightness or darkness. Hue: the common distinction between colors positioned around a color wheel (which is, strictly, a Hue wheel) Wikipedia on Munsell's Hue/Value/Chroma color model In terms of purely visual phenoma of color, the three essential traits of color are Hue, Value and Chroma. While there are many color models - or ways of describing color - all of them involve three dimensions or three parameters. Color Theory Topic: Hue, Value Chroma Color Basics: Hue, Value & Chroma
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