Color Theory
Color Schemes
Psychology of Color
Additive Primaries Warm and Cool Colors Colors and Moods
Subtractive Primaries Analogous Colors that Move
Hue Complementary What To Avoid
Shade Monochromatic
Tint Triadic
Saturation
Mode

 

What is tint?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The terms value and brightness refer to the light or dark qualities of a color. The light colors (tints) are high values. Below, the hue red is tinted in both RGB and CYMK modes.

As you move from left to right in an RGB additive color palette you create each tint of red by keeping the same amount of red light and increasing the amount of both blue and green light.

 


As you move from left to right in an CYMK subtractive color palette you create each shade of red by by changing the value of CYMK or in essence, adding white.

 

 

 
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