For the record, the dress is definitely black and blue. But it appears white and gold to some people due to a phenomenon called color constancy and the way that our brains interpret colors.

Pink is a tint created by adding white to red. A shade is where an artist adds black to a colour to darken it down ... and tones of red and yellow used make her skin appear bright and warm.

A tint is where an artist adds a colour to white to create ... white tints to nearly black shades. The background is made up of green-browns. Subtle contrast is make between all these greens ...