Glossary

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Achromatic: Hues made from black, gray ans white.

Additive color theory/mixing: Combining lightwaves to create color.

Afterimage: Illusionss occuring when retinal cones and/or neurons becomes fatigued/overstimulated. Photoreceptor cells are responsible for human perception of color. A photoreceptor cell become fatigue if it fixates on a particular color, and will cause a false electrical impulse by the receptor cell, thus creating the afterimage.

Analogous colors: A color grouping in which the colors are to the near left and right of each other. An analogous color scheme is harmonious because all colors within the palette have a certain percentage of each other built into them.

Aqueous coating: One of the four basic types of coatings, including varnish, UV coating and laminates. Aqueous coating is a resin and water based covering.

Blind emboss: An emboss that is not registered to a printed image.

Bronzing: An effect that develops when some inks are exposed to light and air that creates a false reading in the calculation of color. Bronzing causes a glare effect in 3-D color space. Most often it occurs in inks that are warm in nature, or color builds that have a mixture of warm and cool colors: the pigments in warm colors begin to rise up through the coolr ink pigments.

Calibration: Generic – Tuning an instrument or a device to obtain optimal results.