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

The first illustration of an orange filled with color was chosen for the purpose of stimulating the imagination to follow a surface color inward to the neutral axis by regular decrease of chroma.

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