what is the difference between Hue and Color?
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Hue is one part of what can describe a color.
You could loosely say they are synonyms, but when you want to get into the details of specific shade differences, not just the colors in an 8 pack of crayons, you need to describe other factors to a color as well.
Those other factors (when hue is one) being Saturation and Lightness, both measured in percent.
If you describe Hue, Saturation, and Lightness together using numbers, you can point to a very specific color/shade.
Hue is typically measured in degrees. If you lay out colors on a color wheel, 12:00 aka 0/360° is red, then ROYGBIV your way around the circle. So a hue of 270 (West on a compass) is purple. But if you want to describe a color in more detail than “purple” you’ll need to describe how saturated (how not black and white the color is, for lack of a better explanation) and how light it is.
So a hue of 0 is red, but…
>Crimson has a hue angle of 348 degrees, a saturation of 83.3% and a lightness of 47.1%.
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