Hue, brightness, and saturation, Brightness, Saturation – Oki C 5800Ldn User Manual

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C5800 Ldn User’s Guide

Color Matching • 180

Hue, Brightness, and Saturation

There are three main components to color: Hue, Brightness,

and Saturation.
Hue

The component that determines the frequency of light or

the position in the spectrum or the relative amounts of

red, green and blue. Hue corresponds to the common

definition of color, e.g. "red", "orange", "violet" etc.

Brightness

The component that determines the total amount of light

(white) in the color. Zero brightness is black. 100%

Brightness is white. Intermediate values are "light" or

"dark" colors.

Windows and Macintosh 10.3

Brightness can be adjusted when using the Advanced

Color or Gray Scale color modes (color matching

methods).
Advanced Color: see page 184
Gray Scale: see page 186

Saturation

The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or

freedom from, mixture with white.
Windows and Macintosh 10.3

Saturation can be adjusted when using the Advanced

Color or Gray Scale color modes (color matching

methods).
Advanced Color: see page 184
Gray Scale: see page 186

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