About The Gardener’s Color Wheel
By Sydney Eddison
Pure Colors
Colors at their strongest are described as “pure”, “intense”,
or saturated”. Saturated, in this case, is simply another word
for “pure” or “intense”. The pure
colors appear around the outside edge of the color wheel on both sides.
Pure red is red at its reddest; pure orange, is orange at its most
orange; pure yellow, yellow at its sunniest; pure green, green at
its greenest, and so forth.
Color Modifications: Tints, Tones, and
Shades
Less pure or less intense versions of each color are called
tints, tones, and shades. Artists achieve these color variations
by mixing paints. Nature achieves similar effects but in her own
way. A tint is any color with white added. Pastels are tints. A tone is any color with gray added; a shade, any color with black added.
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