Glossary
Accessibility
The degree to which a website can be understood by as many people as possible, including those with disabilities
Achromatic
In colour schemes, the absence of hue and saturation – just black, white and the greys in between
Achromatic greys
Made from mixing just black and white together with no other colour
ActionScript
Flash’s object-oriented programming language
Additive colour
Colour created by superimposing light. Adding together (or superimposing) the three primaries – red, blue and green – will produce white. The secondaries are cyan, yellow and magenta
(see transmitted colour)
Analogous colour scheme Colour scheme based on a pie-shaped slice of three or more hues located next to each other on the colour wheel, usually ...
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