Color value

Effectively using color means your graphs clearly communicate your data. This post shows how. We summarize and apply visualization research to real-world examples. You can make graphs like these with Plotly’s web app, or APIs for Python, MATLAB, and R. For users who want to securely share graphs and data within a team, or create interactive dashboards, contact us about Plotly on-premise. In other Plotly news: We’ve released maps for our Python API. We’ve released a free version of our…

Color Explained ™TMColor theory is about so much more than the color wheel.

To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more clear to the horizon can give a sense of distan…

In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue, value (lightness), and chroma. It was c...

It is important to understand the key terminologies and theories associated with describing and understanding colours. Colour Description: To give a precise description of a colour can be difficult and frustrating. A yellow can be dark-yellow or light-yellow, bright or dull yellow, lemon-yellow or melon-yellow. Colour has four distinct properties: hue, value, saturation. To understand colour you must understand how these four properties relate to each other.

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COLOR THEORY

Colour can be described using three dimensions or attributes: Hue – the general category of colour such as ‘red’, ‘green’ and ‘blue’. Tonal Value (also known as Tone and Value) which is the level of lightness or darkness of a colour. Chroma (also known as Saturation or Chromaticity) which is the level of pigment purity or intensity of colour. Attributes of colour illustration by Zena O'Connor.