what is the difference between Hue and Color?
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Hue is one component of color (or more properly, of human perception of color). It describes, in a sense, “which type” of color a color is. So for example, a light blue and a dark blue might share a hue, but differ in other components of color (like saturation or lightness).
Hue shows up in a couple color systems, but the most common is HSL (which describes colors as a hue, a saturation, and a lightness). Hue is “which” color something is (it’s what’s different between a bright blue and a bright green). Saturation describes “how intense” the color is (it’s what’s different between a very blue blue and a slightly blue grey). And lightness describes where a color is on a scale from black to white (it’s what’s different between a dark blue and a light blue).
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