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Local color paintingLocal color painting

Local color painting

In painting, local color is the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other…

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Bezold–Brücke shift

The Bezold–Brücke shift is a change in hue perception as light intensity changes. As intensity increases, spectral colors shift more…

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Unique hues

Unique hue is a term used in certain theories of color vision, which implies that human perception distinguishes between "unique"…

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Marrs green

Marrs green is a shade of green that in 2017 won 'The World's Favourite Colour', a major global survey by…

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International Color Consortium

The International Color Consortium was formed in 1993 by eight vendors in order to create an open, vendor-neutral color management…

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Colourant

A colorant or color additive is a substance that is added or applied in order to change the colour of…

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Blue Wool Scale

The Blue Wool Scale measures and calibrates the permanence of colouring dyes. Traditionally this test was developed for the textiles…

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Pastel color

Pastels or pastel colors are the family of colors which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value…

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Wide-gamut RGB color space

The wide-gamut RGB color space (or Adobe Wide Gamut RGB) is an RGB color space developed by Adobe Systems, that…

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Acid green color

Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color, but the one shown is representative.…

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Ostwald color system

In colorimetry, the Ostwald color system is a color space that was invented by Wilhelm Ostwald. Associated with the Color…

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HKS colour system

The HKS is a colour system which contains 120 spot colours and 3520 tones for coated and uncoated paper. HKS…

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Alizarin crimson color

Alizarin crimson is a red color that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel.…

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