chroma

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Meanwhile figures such as Albert H. Munsell, a painter-turned-color-theorist, devised systems that mapped color by hue, value and chroma in an effort to translate perception into measurable terms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Rawls projects stop-motion videos of still images of Black dancers onto chroma green screens suspended from the ceiling.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

But if there’s a little bit more ambient lighting, colors look washed out, or low in chroma.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

Pointed reminders on each floor indicate that the “color” of the show’s title refers not only to chroma but to skin color.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2018

This is simply change of hue, without change of value or chroma if the path be level, but, by inclining it, one end of the sequence becomes lighter, while the other end darkens.

From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)