Graphics Reference
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Saturation The color's saturation describes its intensity, or brilliance. A saturated color
is very intense or vibrant. Colors that are dull are said to be desaturated; colors in which
almost no hue is visible—such as a warm gray or a very dull brown—are said to be
neutral. As with hue, the apparent saturation of a color will change if it can be com-
pared to an adjacent color. Bringing together hues that are as different from each other
in frequency as possible, meaning closer to either of the opposing primaries, will cause
the intensity of both colors to increase dramatically.
This effect is even more pronounced if the amount of the two colors is very different;
the color present in a smaller amount will become much more intense against a large
field of the second color. Interestingly, a small amount of a desaturated—even neut-
ral—color, presented against a large field of another color, will appear to gain in intens-
ity and shift hue toward the opposite end of the spectrum.
HIGHLY SATURATED bands of color help advance the idea of “alert” in this newsletter cover.
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