I like to see a difference of about 0.20 (ish) between white trim color and the wall color. Let’s say we’re looking for a wall color and a white to go with it for the trim, doors, cabinets. Well, there’s a lot you can do with it but let’s talk about one example. Wondering how this applies to specifying paint colors? Chroma and Paint Colors: The Definitive Guide You Need to Read They’re similar in Value except Snowfall White is a lighter, brighter color by just a little bit.Īgain, small incremental differences can mean a lot. You can see that small increments in Chromaticity can make a big difference.Īll three of these whites belong to the same hue family, they’re organized in the Munsell Color System in the same hue family neighborhood. Let’s compare Chroma values for these three colors above. Ready for another case study? Let’s use a range of whites this time. Just by glancing at the Chroma number and Chroma scale you can determine if a color is strong, colorful, clean, clear, vivid -or- weak, near neutral, dirty, muddy, or dull. Naval is in the middle in terms of strong or weak compared to the other two. It’s farther away from 0 true neutral gray. What the numbers indicate and what the scale illustrates is how strong and colorful these purple-blues are -or- how weak and closer to a true neutral gray they are.Īgain referencing the Colorographies, you can see that Hale Navy is the weakest, it’s closer to a true neutral gray of the same intensity.Īdmiral is the strongest and most colorful. The Chroma scale draws a picture of Chroma for you so the differences are easy to see at-a-glance and understand quickly.
When we study their Chroma, we can see that Hale Navy has the lowest Chroma value, 1.51.Īdmiral Blue has the most Chroma of the three coming in at 4.26. When we look at Hue, we can see that all three colors belong to the Purple-Blue (PB) hue family. In this case study you will want to focus on two parts of the Colorographies below:
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