"Photometric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... terms are frequently misapplied. A tint should be a light value, and a shade should be darker; but the word "shade" has become a general term for any sort of color, so that a shade of yellow may prove to be lighter than a tint of blue. A photometric[7] scale of value places all colors in relation to the extremes of white and black, but cannot describe ...
— A Color Notation - A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, - Value and Chroma • Albert H. Munsell |
