Chroma

How colourful something looks next to a grey of the same lightness.

Chroma

See it in Color intelligence. Load a picture and compare the swatches: some are rich, some close to grey.

In plain words

Chroma measures how far a colour is from grey. A bright green leaf has high chroma, and a dusty olive has low chroma. It sounds like saturation, but it is measured against a grey of the same lightness. That keeps it steady as colours get lighter or darker. Designers use it to keep a set of colours equally vivid.

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