COLOR-INTENSITIES IN DIFFERENT VALUES

133. If we proceed to carry out the idea of Diagram 2, producing all

the twelve colors in all of the seven values intermediate between

the extremes of Black and White, making the colors, in every case,

as strong, as intense, as is possible with the pigment-materials we

have chosen to use, we shall discover that the twelve colors reach

their greatest intensities in different values; that is to say, in

different quantities of light. Red reaches its greatest intensity in

the value High Dark, Orange in Low Light, Yellow in High Light, Green

in Low Light, Blue in High Dark, Violet in Low Dark, approximately;

and the intermediate colors reach their greatest intensities in the

intermediate values, approximately. In order to indicate this fact

in our diagram, we will mark the positions of greatest intensity by

putting the color signs in larger type.

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