Hues, Tints, Shades, and Saturation Colors
Same Color, Different Colors in Desktop Publishing
There are more colors that we can see and create than just Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta. Although we often depict the color wheel as shown above — with blocks of solid color. It is really millions of colors that blend one into another as we move around the wheel. Similar to this color wheel:
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Each of those individual colors is a hue. Red is a hue. Blue is a hue. Purple is a hue.
You can change the saturation of a hue by adding black (shadow) or white (light). The amount of saturation gives us our shades and tints.
Add varying amounts of black to get shades. Think of the coming darkness and the darkening shadows to remember that a hue plus black equals a shade.
Add varying amounts of white to lighten a hue. The light hues are tints.
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