@CaramelizedShallots@ohai.social
2026-09-21 00:45 UTC
@clew@ecoevo.social
I appreciate your analogy to a rose spray. That is lovely. Thank you.
Regarding terminology, value is the general term that you might be looking for to describe lightness or darkness Shade and tint are more specific and work here too. Shade has black added to the original color. Tint has white added. And a tone has grey. I would say that the dusty rose can be called a tone.
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@CaramelizedShallots@ohai.social 2026-09-21 00:50
@clew@ecoevo.social And actually the brown is kinda greyed down a bit too. It is actually the same value as the dusty pink. I tried playing around with a darker brown, similar in value to the red, and I didn’t like it. I liked the softness of the lighter brown. Plus, the darker brown is much newer and did not work into my plan of de-stashing as many old yarns as possible.
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2026-09-21 01:20
I was specifically wondering about a word for a sequence of different shades (hues, tints) of a single color. Also a spectrum? @CaramelizedShallots@ohai.social