Monochromatic color schemes use tints, tones, and shades of a single base hue. Achromatic color schemes use shades of grey, which lack hue. Monochromatic schemes are derived from a single hue extended using darker or lighter versions of that hue. Achromatic colors like white, grey, and black lack hue and saturation but have lightness.

1. FUNDAMENTALS OF DESIGN
BASIC ELEMENTS OF DESIGN – LEC 2

2. COLOR THEORY

4. COLOR SCHEMES
Monochromatic
Achromatic

5. MONOCHROMATIC COLOR
•Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a
single hue.
•Monochromatic color schemes are derived from a single base hue and
extended using its shades, tones and tints. Tints are achieved by adding white
and shades and tones are achieved by adding a darker color, grey or black.

11. ACHROMATIC COLOR
•Achromatic means literally “without color”
•An achromatic color is a one that lacks hues such as white, grey and black,
and a chromatic color is a color which has even the slightest amount of
hue. Achromatic colors (white, grey and black) have lightness but no hue or
saturation. They can be created by mixing complementary colors together.
•Achromatic is an adjective that means “free of color.” ... A black and white
print has shades of grey, but grey scale is also considered to
be achromatic because it lacks hue, which means it cannot be classified as a
subset of the colors red, green, blue (RGB) or yellow.