Sitting on my keyboard awaiting my attention, I ripped this page out of some magazine a while back. I'm finally going to post these Color Vocabulary definitions. They're short, sweet and pretty easy to understand.
VALUE: The lightness or darkness of a particular color. Light blue, medium blue and dark blue have the same hue but a different value.
SHADE: Those colors with values nearest black such as the darkest blue and the darkest red. (Easy-to-remember hint: Imagine black with a shade of red or blue.)
TINT: Those colors with values closest to white such as the lightest blue and the lightest red. (Easy-to-remember hint: Imagine white with a tint of blue or red.)
HUE: Lighter or darker variations are of the same hue. Thus, a light red and a deep red are of the same hue. The hue [or color] of this square is aqua.
TONE: A color's intensity, brightness or dullness. When gray is added to a color like red, for example, it dulls the intensity and renders it a darker tone.
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