thumb|right|All colors on this color wheel should appear to have the same lightness and the same saturation, differing only by hue.
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10 sectionsContents
- Deriving a hue
- Opponent color spaces
- Defining hue in terms of RGB
- Usage in art
- Hue vs. dominant wavelength
- Hue difference notation
- Names and other notations
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|All colors on this color wheel should appear to have the same lightness and the same saturation, differing only by hue.
In color theory, hue is one of the properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet," within certain theories of color vision.