Hue facts for kids

Hue in the red-green-blue circular color space.

Hue is one of the main properties of a color.

It is defined as “the degree to which a stimulus is similar to, or different from, stimuli that are red, green, blue, and yellow” (the unique hues).

The other main aspects of color appearance are colorfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness, and brightness.

Usually, colors with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives referring to their lightness and/or chroma, such as with "light blue", "pastel blue", "vivid blue".

Images for kids

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  All colors on this color wheel should appear to have the same lightness and the same saturation, differing only by hue

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  An image with the hues cyclically shifted in HSL space

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  The hues in this image of a painted bunting are cyclically rotated over time in HSL.

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  HSV color space as a conical object

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  Although the variance in luminance is easy to notice for HSL/HSV, the variation in hue is less perceivable. This graph maps 12 points on the HSV color wheel to CIELAB's color plane, displaying the lack of uniformity in hue and saturation.

See also

In Spanish: Tono (color) para niños