the term value contrast refers to the relationship between areas of dark and even darker

So you add a touch of grey to the blue and get a slightly grey blue tone. Say you have a mix of blues for a sky BUT you want a stormy sky. Tone is a colour with grey, OR other colours, added to it. Yes, you add white to a colour to create a TINT and black to a colour to create a SHADE. As soon as you add ANYTHING to either one they are no longer “black” or “white”. “Grey is distinguishable from differing levels of Black and White how?” The answer is that grey is distinguishable from black or white simply because there are NO “differing levels” of black or white. Hi Red, I hope I can help you figure this out. There wasn’t a “reply” button on his comment so I thought I’ve respond in the nearest comment to his. Which now brings us to value, often the most discussed and the confusing one. Tones, tints, and shades all have different values. Tones, tints, and shades are all still called colours. Combinations of hues with grey create a myriad of skin tones in a portrait. Skin tones - think of all of those colours in a face. and sometimes one or more other colours added to the pure colourĪ tone is simply a combination colour or a greyed down hue, the colours 'beige' or 'salmon' are tones. TONE - pure colour plus grey (black and white added) Once another colour or grey (black and white) is introduced, it becomes a tone. If a hue is mixed only with white or black, it stays a pure tint or a pure shade. The colour aubergine can be called a shade of violet/purple if black is added to the hue violet/purple to achieve it. The colour lilac can be referenced as a tint if only white is added to the hue violet/purple to achieve it.Ī shade is simply a hue that has had black added to it. HUE - pure colour (colour wheel colours), no white, black or another colour mixed with it - or referring to the dominant pure colour in a colourĪ tint is just a hue that has had white added to it.

The term value contrast refers to the relationship between areas of dark and even darker