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Hue Complementary What To Avoid
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What is hue?

 

 

Each individual color in the color wheel is a hue. Hue is the name of the color for instance red, green, navy blue, orange, purple, lavender, turquoise. Hue is absolutely any color in the rainbow that you choose to pick. Hue is simply the name of the color.

When you opened that brand new box of 128 Crayola crayons and read the name on the wrapper of each new color, you were deciding what hue you wanted to use.

It doesn't matter if it is red, maroon, a shade of red, or pink, each one of those names is a hue.

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