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  2. Shades of black - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. It decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a "shade of black" is always a pure black itself and a "tint of black" would be a neutral gray. In practice, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation).

  3. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Brown. Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available ...

  4. List of RAL colours - Wikipedia

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    RAL 1015. Light ivory. Mandatory for all steel work in P&G / mandatory for taxis in Germany since 1971, although in limited states only in recent years. RAL 1016. Sulfur yellow. Standard European ambulance colour in accordance with CEN 1789. [ 2 ] RAL 1017. Saffron yellow.

  5. Paint sheen - Wikipedia

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    Paint sheen. High-gloss finish used for kitchen elements. Sheen is a measure of the reflected light ( glossiness) from a paint finish. Glossy and flat (or matte) are typical extreme levels of glossiness of a finish. Gloss paint is shiny and reflects most light in the specular (mirror-like) direction, while on flat paints most of the light ...

  6. Matte - Wikipedia

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    Matte (filmmaking), filmmaking and video production technology. Matte painting, a process of creating sets used in film and video. Matte box, a camera accessory for controlling lens glare. Open matte, a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector.

  7. ColorChecker - Wikipedia

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    ColorChecker. The ColorChecker Color Rendition Chart (often referred to by its original name, the Macbeth ColorChecker[ 1] or simply Macbeth chart[ 2]) is a color calibration target consisting of a cardboard-framed arrangement of 24 squares of painted samples. The ColorChecker was introduced in a 1976 paper by McCamy, Marcus, and Davidson in ...

  8. Color term - Wikipedia

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    high-frequency, and. agreed upon by speakers of that language. English has 11 basic color terms: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray; other languages have between 2 and 12. All other colors are considered by most speakers of that language to be variants of these basic color terms.

  9. Silver (color) - Wikipedia

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    Silver (color) A silver crystal. Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver . Silver ingot. The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color because the shiny effect is due to the material's ...