About the term hue here at lightcolourvision.org
- At lightcolourvision.org we use hue in relation to the colour models it belongs to.
- Colour models describe the attributes of colour in different ways.
- One of our favourites is the HSB colour model.
- The HSB colour model refers to hue alongside saturation and brightness.
- The HSB colour model is extensively used for digital design and can be used to describe any colour on a TV, computer or mobile phone.
- The CMYK colour model which is a subtractive colour model uses a different set of attributes because one of its main concerns is how coloured inks appear on paper.
- Cyan, magenta, yellow and black (K) can print almost any colour without referencing hue, saturation ord brightness.
- Because hue isn’t part of that vocabulary then in that context the term is best avoided.