Konica Minolta BIZHUB C250, User Manual

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Introduction
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General information about color
Everybody has an idea of what hue an object has, for example, an apple
is red, a lemon is yellow, and the sky is blue. Hue is the tint by which
the color of an object is classified as red, yellow, blue, etc.
Brightness is the degree of lightness in a color, as
compared with another color, which makes it a light
color or a dark color. For example, when comparing
the yellow of a lemon and the yellow of a grapefruit,
it is obvious that the yellow of the lemon is brighter.
But what about when comparing the yellow of a lem-
on and the red of a bean? Obviously, the yellow of
the lemon is brighter. Brightness is this degree of
lightness that enables comparison regardless of the
hue. What makes the difference between the yellow of a
lemon and the yellow of a pear? By saying that the
lemon is a more vivid yellow and the pear is a duller
yellow, the difference between the two colors is stat-
ed in terms of saturation, as opposed to brightness.
As opposed to hue and brightness, saturation is the
characteristic that indicates the degree of vividness.
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