color saturation
Pigment strength measure
Color saturation is the intensity or purity of a color—how vivid it appears rather than how light or dark.
A highly saturated red is bold and rich; a desaturated red appears washed out or grayish.
Photographers and designers adjust saturation to make images pop or create muted, subdued effects: I bumped up the saturation to make the sunset more dramatic.
- chromaticityHue-saturation specification
- hueColor's specific character
- tintFaint color addition
- shadeDarkness from blocked light
- muted tonesColors desaturated toward gray
desaturated · pop · contrast · brightness · primary colors · vividness · tone · vibrancy · pigment · punchy · neon · rich colors · deep · image processing · pale · glow · washed-out · dull
- color termsblack, white, red, blue, green
- color theoryhue, primary colors, secondary colors, value, chroma
- saturation typeschroma, vividness, intensity, permeation, drenching
- Color FieldMark Rothko, large canvas, veils, staining, large canvases
- trip effectshallucinations, visuals, euphoria, ego death, synesthesia
- memory termsremembering, recollection, flashback, recall, reminiscence
chromatic intensity
color saturationdesaturation
Reduction of color intensity
grayness · colorlessness · grayscale · dullness · mutedness