Different perspectives on color lead to self-tutoring: the tutor shares ideas about saturation.

Saturation is the opposite of gray. (See my post here about gray and grayscale.) Gray can also be written grey (see my post here). However, my sources about color seem to prefer the spelling gray, so I follow their lead.

Saturated means “pure color”. I’ve, at times, imagined “saturated” color as dark or vivid. In some cases the perception makes sense, from a practical point of view.

In the rgb (red, green, blue) system, gray is an equal combination of all three. Therefore, a color can be imagined to exist “on top of gray”. For example, the css color chocolate, versus its saturated counterpart:

Source:

www.w3schools.com

www.workwithcolor.com

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.