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

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

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

The Watts Towers aim to split the sky into chroma, spires tiled with rubble nothing less than aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019

Jars.—Exterior: range of hue 10R to 10YR; value 3 to 7; chroma 1 to 8.

From Mohave Pottery by Harner, Michaell J.