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Recent Examples of chroma
Knowing elements like hue, value, chroma, and whether a color is warm or cool can all guide you towards picking hues that feel good in your space.
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Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Aug. 2025
The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
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Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
10 Aug. 2025
The nuances are detailed in long blog posts filled with pictures of color wheels and terms such as chroma.
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Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
30 Dec. 2024
Saturation, or chroma, refers to the level of intensity or brilliance of a color.
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Kate Reggev,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2024
Colors have properties like luminance, chroma and saturation, all of which affect their appearance.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2023
Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Aug. 2025
The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
10 Aug. 2025
The nuances are detailed in long blog posts filled with pictures of color wheels and terms such as chroma.
—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
30 Dec. 2024
Saturation, or chroma, refers to the level of intensity or brilliance of a color.
—
Kate Reggev,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2024
Colors have properties like luminance, chroma and saturation, all of which affect their appearance.
—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chroma
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The first is Kryla, a compact cruise missile carrying a 50-kilogram warhead designed for saturation attacks.
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Most colors lacked saturation, giving photos a faded look right out of the printer.
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Astronomers repeatedly attempted to fit subtle shifts in the brightness of T CrB to the few points of reliable historical data on offer, while accounting for fluctuations in the white dwarf's feeding rate.
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Green, in soft shades from sage to pistachio, is a new neutral that adds nice brightness to a spring wardrobe.
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Represented by the coordinates on the CIE chromaticity diagram, this color can be described as a shade of beige or off-white.
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In our testing, the Cintiq Pro 17 covered 100% of the sRGB space (which is very similar to Rec. 709) and 98.1% of DCI-P3 (see the chromaticity chart above).
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The surest way to move the fastest, have the greatest impact and capture the most value is to vertically integrate and execute on the full value chain end-to-end.
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By 58% to 42%, those surveyed said Americans were mostly separated by different values, not bound by shared ones.
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The contrast between bright snowfields and deep shadows has always pushed displays to their limits, but on the G6, viewers can finally see the deep, rich blacks that the filmmakers originally intended.
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The Sox are 24-12 at home, in contrast to their recent road woes.
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The collection expressed an idea of contemporary simplicity, built through precise proportions, evolved materials and a new visual lightness.
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Choose Furniture With Raised Legs McClain creates visual lightness by choosing seating that is raised up from the floor.
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“Chroma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chroma. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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