The Gran Anejo is an interesting color, very light for a dark rum, with a golden hue, almost the color of a blended Scotch like Chivas or Johnnie Walker.

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Or see a bright, tropical color and then recognize that exact hue in advertisements and fashions everywhere?

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Mr. Fischer has painted the surface with a faded pale blue hue, a gradient of color he distilled from a landscape photograph using Photoshop, a computer program he employs in much of his work.

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By adjusting the level of annatto, a seed that gives food an orange hue, he can match the color.

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Mr. BERNS: If you look at the flowers, we're seeing changes in lightness, changes in chroma, how much color, but also we see slight changes in hue going from purplish to bluish to reddish.

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It has a pure yellow hue with no green or orange modifying color and the color distribution is very even with no visible zoning present, according to a joint statement from USMS and Bid4Assets.

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The Harmony Hub takes personalizing your activities a step farther into home control with the ability to program your Philips Hue lights to the desired brightness and color with a tap of the Logitech Harmony Ultimate.

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In this technique, you surround a figure with a complementary color or, in Seurat's painting, a lighter hue.

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The Hue system lets you switch between a seemingly infinite number of color and brightness settings.

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From here, you can select your chosen book cover color, choose a title and select your desired "paper" layout and hue.

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