[NPPF] Canto Three: The English stuff.. hueshade

[David Morris]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>Well, no...  hue = color<<<
> 
> Nabokov is not limited to the primary definition of a word.

But one would hope that he understood the diffremce betweem HUE (color) and
VALUE (shade). 

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/color/color.htm

"The word COLOR is the general term which applies to the whole subject - red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, black and white and all possible
combinations thereof. HUE is the correct word to use to refer to just the pure
spectrum colors. Any given color can be described in terms of its VALUE and
HUE.

"VALUE is defined as the relative lightness or darkness of a color."

" Hue is the term for the pure spectrum colors commonly referred to by the
"color names" - red, orange, yellow, blue, green violet - which appear in the
hue circle or rainbow. Theoretically all hues can be mixed from three basic
hues, known as primaries. "