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  2. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    Some tints and shades of blue. In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness.

  3. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    The "rose of temperaments" (Temperamenten-Rose) compiled by Goethe and Schiller in 1798/9.The diagram matches twelve colors to human occupations or their character traits, grouped in the four temperaments: * choleric (red/orange/yellow): tyrants, heroes, adventurers * sanguine (yellow/green/cyan) hedonists, lovers, poets * phlegmatic (cyan/blue/violet): public speakers, historians ...

  4. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is a historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. [1]

  5. Color - Wikipedia

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    Colored pencils. Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference.

  6. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling.There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2]

  7. Munsell color system - Wikipedia

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    The Munsell color system, showing: a circle of hues at value 5 chroma 6; the neutral values from 0 to 10; and the chromas of purple-blue (5PB) at value 5.

  8. List of RAL colours - Wikipedia

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    Number Sample Colour name Description, examples RAL 2000: Yellow orange: RAL 2001: Red orange: RAL 2002: Blood orange: U2 line of the Berlin U-Bahn: RAL 2003: Pastel orange: U9 line of the Berlin U-Bahn; the Helsinki Metro system

  9. Chromaticity - Wikipedia

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    In color science, the white point of an illuminant or of a display is a neutral reference characterized by a chromaticity; all other chromaticities may be defined in relation to this reference using polar coordinates.