tint

(noun)

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

Related Terms

Examples of tint in the following topics:

  • Preservation and Restoration

    • Examples of interventive conservation include securing flaking paint and the tinted varnish treatment, whereby the restorer applies a tinted varnish over the original varnish, giving the illusion that spots on a work have been repainted.

  • Light and Value

    • Value can be subdivided into tint (light hues) and shade (dark hues).

  • Watercolor

    • Botanical illustrations became popular in the Renaissance, both as hand tinted woodblock illustrations in books or broadsheets and as tinted ink drawings on vellum or paper.

  • Basic Color Vocabulary

    • "Value" refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a color, while "tint" and "shade" result from variations in value.

  • Color

    • In addition, "tint" and "shade" are important aspects of color theory and result from lighter and darker variations in value, respectively.

  • Emphasis

    • Some people also refer the lightness and darkness in an artwork as tints(light) and shades(dark).

  • The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

    • Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations were without precedent

  • Engraving

    • There are other types of gravers, such as the angle tint tool, which has a slightly curved tip.