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
A radius crossing this line passes to some hue on the circumference, and describes by its intersection with the first line 38 the chroma of the color made by a mixture of the two original colors.
From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell
