A8-82 Desktop Color PrimerColor Reference Guide for C9800 - 82Hue, saturation, and brightnessA color can be described in terms of three varying characteristics, called the HSBcolor model:• Hue—tint (the qualitative aspect of a color—red, green, or orange)• Saturation—the purity of the color• Brightness—relative position between white and blackWhile the CIE chromaticity diagram shown earlier conveys hue and saturation,a three-dimensional color model is required to add the brightness component, asshown in the following figure.BrightnessSaturationHue
