Foundations

Describing Color

Words and numbers for telling one color from another

Everyday color names are too loose for a painter. This module sets out the properties every color has, the wheel painters use to arrange hues, and a system that locates each color by number. Later modules use these terms throughout.

• Three properties of any color, and what white, gray or black do to it
• Primaries, secondaries and tertiaries on the painter's wheel
• A measured color space built around a gray axis

Achromatic

Without hue: white, black and the grays between them.

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