Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue chroma (also called saturation intensity or colorfulness) or lightness (or value tone or brightness) or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
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