The RGB (red, green, blue) color model is the most popular way to mix and create colors. If you work with commercial printers, you know about CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, key). You may have noticed HSV (hue, saturation, value) in the color picker of your graphics software. These are schemes that describe how colors combine to create the spectrum we see.
All about hue, saturation and value
Unlike RGB and CMYK, which use primary colors, HSV is closer to how humans perceive color. It has three components: hue, saturation, and value. This color space describes colors (hue or tint) in terms of their shade (saturation, or amount of gray) and their brightness value. Some color pickers, such as the one in Adobe Photoshop, use the acronym HSB, which replaces the term "brightness" with "value," but HSV and HSB refer to the same color model.
The HSV color wheel sometimes appears as a cone or cylinder, but it always consists of these three components:
Tint is the color portion of the model, expressed as a number from 0 to 360 degrees:
