Principles of the science of colour : concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in the decorative arts (1872)
Benson, William, Chapman and Hall, publisher · London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly · leaf 29
re intendedto be represented in this diagram, may be termed theprincipal colours; and it may well be supposed that each of them would form asstriking a contrast with its complementary, as full White does to Black, were itpossible to present them to the eye with perfect purity: in practice, however,… … CHAPTER VI. QUALITIES OF COLOURS. Besides the brightness of a colour, which depends of course on the quantity of itslight, and its richness (or strength of hue), which depends upon the quantity of theunneutralized part of its light, there are two qualities which have the greatest effectin striking…
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