tone color

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These segments diverge in tone, color and movement from the muted palette and fixed compositions with which cinematographer Steve Cosens girds the biographical narrative.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

But in this new study that we’ve done, we looked at cases where people were using a skin tone color for their emoji that didn’t match their actual skin color.

From The Verge • Dec. 12, 2018

Mr. Appleby brought nervy physicality to the part, but could seem a little blank vocally, singing with smooth and pliant tone but few variations in tone color.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2016

It was arguably worth exhuming, not just for the curiosity value but for the touch of golden tone color it provided in the depths of the music.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2015

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin