Tinting Chart

• The baslac tinting chart provides a good overview of all mixing bases.

All colors can be described according to three different attributes: Hue, Chroma and Value.

• Hue has to do with the basic name or kind of color such as red, yellow, green or blue. Hue changes as you move around the color wheel.
• Chroma the amount of color or its intensity or saturation. Chroma changes as you move from the center of the color wheel, which is black or white or gray, towards the outer edge of the color wheel in any direction. Chroma is the vector distance from neutral gray of the same lightness.
• Value relates to the lightness or darkness of a color, and answers the question: How much of the color is a white or black?

• Pictograms provide information about the features of the main mixing bases:
  
  • Side & Face view
  • Color group, Hue
  • chroma
  • Value

• The central color indicates the color group

• The color on the left, indicates the deviation of the color group in Face view when keeping the color vertical in front of you.

• The color on the right side, indicates the direction of color when keeping the color horizontal in front of you (side view)

The color at the top, indicates the shade (value) of the color.

• The surround area will indicate if the color is pure, or dirty (chroma)