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.

  • Nonthermophilic Crenarchaeota

    • Halophiles are found mainly in inland bodies of water with high salinity, where their pigments (from a protein called rhodopsinprotein) tint the sediment bright colors.

  • Light and Value

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

  • Properties of Quartz and Glass

    • Ordinary soda-lime glass appears colorless to the naked eye when it is thin, although iron (II) oxide (FeO) impurities of up to 0.1 % by weight produce a green tint.
    • Manganese dioxide can be added in small amounts to remove the green tint given by iron(II) oxide.

  • 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.

  • Archaeplastida

    • Some species of red algae contain phycoerythrins, photosynthetic accessory pigments that are red in color and outcompete the green tint of chlorophyll, making these species appear as varying shades of red.

  • Color

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

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  • Emphasis

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