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
It unites measured scales of hue, value, and chroma, and gives a definite color name to every sensation from the maxima of color-light and color-strength to their disappearance in darkness.
From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell
