There are three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. These are the only colors that can’t be made by adding any other colors together. You can’t add two other colors to make red. But, you can combine two or more of the primary colors to make all the other colors.
To describe a color with reasonable accuracy, there are three basic properties used to identify the qualities of color:
1. Hue - the name of a color
2. Value - the degree of lightness or darkness in a color; can be expressed by tones, tints and shades
3. Intensity - the degree of purity or strength of a color (hue) or how bright or muted the colors are. For example, an intense red is one that is a very strong, pure red color. When a lighter or darker color is added to a color, the intensity will be less bright. (If you add white to red you get pink, a less intense color strength)
In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, and a shade is the mixture of a color with black, which reduces lightness
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