The previous newsletter on color explained about “Basics of Color.” Many of the newsletter subscribers appreciated & requested for more information on the color, overall feedback was, knowledge of color helps a lot designing good-looking web page. We have also given example using layouts from Layout Galaxy. Ready-to-use design concepts for the web.

In this newsletter we will be discussing :

	More about color
	Grey Scale
	Color shades

A Grey scale is divided in 11 stages. The 1st stage of this scale is pure White, & the last stage is pure black. Remaining nine stages between these two colors are divided into three parts containing three colors each which are Called keys.

They are as follows:
1. High key
2. Middle key
3. Low key

Color at stage one is pure white, from stage two to stage four is called 'High key'. The percentage of pure white goes on decreasing by 10% at each stages.
3 parts in this flow(range) are:

a. High Light
    White 90% + Black 10%

b. Light
    White 80% + Black 20%

c. Low Light
     White 70% + Black 30%

Middle key includes stages from 5 to 7. In these stages white and black color are almost in same proportion.
3 parts in this flow(range) are:

a. High Medium
    White 60% + Black 40%

b. Medium
    White 50% + Black 50%

c. Low Medim
    White 40% + Black 60%

Low key includes stages 10 to 7 upwards from pure black. This key includes all dark shades.

3 parts in this flow are :

a. High Dark
    White 30% + Black 70%

b. Middle Dark
    White 20% + Black 80%

c. Low Dark
    White 10% + Black 90%