A Dictionary of Colour

COLOUR KEY TERMS 

(Book : A Dictionary of Colour : Ian Paterson : 27/11/17)

A - Allochromatic : a change of colour ; as regards minerals, having no colour

B - Base colour : a colour which is predominant in a colour scheme 

C - Chroma : the extent of a colour's brightness or saturation ; the purity of colour 

D - Daltonism : colour blindness ; the inability to distinguish red from green 

E - Eidetic : vivid

F - Ferrugin : rusty

G - Gaudy : brightly coloured to the point of vulgarity 

H - Hue : the purest and brightest form of a colour having no white or black mixed in it 

I - Infuscation : the process of making something dark

J - Jade : a green in various shades, but mainly yellowish green

K - Kaleidoscope : a changing pattern of colours

L - Lambent : as regards light, radiant or bright 

M - Melanophore : a colour changing cell or chromatophore which contains black pigmentation 

N - Neon : bright and garish colour 

O - Obfuscous : dusky or dark 

P - Pale : dim, lacking brightness ; as regards colours, whitish, lacking intensity 

Q - Quiet  : as regards colour, moderate, low key 

R - Risque : off-colour

S - Sad : dull,dark

T - Tertiary : mixing a primary with a secondary colour

U - Undertone : particular bias of a colour

V - Vivid : very bright, lively or brilliant in colour; intense

W - Warm colours : orange, red and yellow

X - Xanthocyanopsia : colour blindness as regards yellow and blue

Y - Yellow : one of the three subtractive primary colours

Z - Zircon : green 'Parisian art shade'