Coloration vs Hue - What's the difference?
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The act or art of coloring.
The quality of being colored.
(music) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or
(music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".
(obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
(figuratively) A character; aspect.
Coloration is a related term of hue.
As a noun coloration
is the act or art of coloring.As a verb hue is
.coloration
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(wikipedia coloration)Alternative forms
* colourationNoun
(en noun)See also
* diatonic * chromatic * coloratura ----hue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.