This is an HSB color simulator, meaning it gives you slides for Hue, Saturation and Brightness, then shows you what color you'll get with the combination! This is especially good for apps like 'Start the Art', made by me, where the only way to test out what color you've made using the sliders is by actually laying it out on the canvas as a swatch. w h a t i s h u e ? Hue is color of the color, like if it is a red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, indigo or pink. This is usually denoted on a scale of 360, for 360 degrees in a circle (a color selection wheel is also a circle). Please note that this program uses the traditional Hue, instead of Color, which Scratch uses (a scale of 100). w h a t i s s a t u r a t i o n ? Saturation is the scale out of 100 which determines where a color falls on the scale between white and pure color. A color in between somewhere, usually closer to white (i.e. with less saturation) is a pastel color. A highly saturated color is usually eye-popping and extremely bright. A color with saturation and brightness as 100 is a 'pure color', the brightest form of it. A color with neither saturation nor brightness being full or empty gives a grayish or murky color. w h a t i s b r i g h t n e s s ? Brightness is the scale of 100 which determines where a color falls on the scale between black and pure color. A color in between somewhere, usually closer to black (i.e. with less brightness) is a dark color.
