Colors with shades and tints of that hue

Black

Black is the darkest shade, and the result of the absence or complete absorption of light. Like white and gray, it is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue.

Blue

Blue is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a

wavelength In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. It is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same phase on the wave, such as two adjacent crests, tro ...

of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive

primary color A set (mathematics), set of primary colors or primary colours (see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences) consists of colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamu ...

Brown

Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available blue pigments tend to be comparatively weaker; the stronger red and yellow colors prevail, thus creating the following tones. The color brown can also be made if multiple paint colors are added to each other.

Cyan

Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the

visible spectrum The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visual perception, visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called ''visible light'' or simply light. A typical human eye wil ...

, i.e., between approximately 490 and 520 nm. It is considered one of the main subtractive

s. Cyan is sometimes considered green or blue because of the way it appears.

Gray

Achromatic grays are colors between black and white with no hue. Chromatic grays are achromatic grays mixed with ''warm hues'' such as yellow (warm grays) ''or cool hues'' such as azure (''cool grays''). This gray color template includes both achromatic and chromatic grays.

Green

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a

of roughly 520–570 nm. It is considered one of the additive

Magenta

Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a

of roughly 500–530 nm. It is considered one of the subtractive

Orange

Orange is the color in the visible spectrum between red and yellow with a

around 585 – 620 nm. In the

HSV color space HSL (for hue, saturation, lightness) and HSV (for hue, saturation, value; also known as HSB, for hue, saturation, brightness) are alternative representations of the RGB color model, designed in the 1970s by computer graphics researchers to mor ...

, it has a hue of around 30°.

Pink

Pink is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light, consisting predominantly of a combination of both the longest and shortest wavelengths discernible by the human eye, in the

ranges of roughly 625–750 nm and 380-490 nm.

Purple

Violet refers to any colour perceptually evoked by light with a predominant

of roughly 380–450 nm. Tones of violet tending towards the blue are called indigo. Purple colors are colors that are various blends of violet or blue light with red light.

Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by

light Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), corresponding to frequencies of 750–420 tera ...

, consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths discernible by the human eye, in the

range of roughly 625–750 nm. It is considered one of the

additive Additive may refer to: Mathematics * Additive function, a function in number theory * Additive map, a function that preserves the addition operation * Additive set-functionn see Sigma additivity * Additive category, a preadditive category with f ...

White

White is a balanced combination of all the colors of the

visible light spectrum The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called ''visible light'' or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wav ...

, or of a pair of

complementary colors Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose hue) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two c ...

, or of three or more colors, such as additive primary colors. It is a neutral or achromatic (''without color'') color, like

black Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white ...

and

gray Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed o ...

Yellow

Yellow is the color of light with wavelengths predominantly in the range of roughly 570–580 nm. In the HSV color space, it has a hue of around 60°. It is considered one of the subtractive

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