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Color and its applications (1921)

Luckiesh, Matthew, b. 1883 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 86

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71 COLOR TERMINOLOGY volves all the difficulties of color-photometry treated in Chapter IX. There is much confusion in the application of the terms 'tint,' 'tone,' 'shade,' 'intensity,' etc. Many use these terms wholly unjustifiably. It is true that the final usage is somewhat a matter of choice at… … Fig. 30.—Disk 'a,' for varying only the saturation of a color. — Disk ' b,' for varying only the brightness of a color. lighting expert, and best justified by usage and the dictates of common sense. On diluting a color with white light, tints are obtained; that is, tints are un- saturated colors.…

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