色相指的是色彩的外相，是在不同波长的光照射下，人眼所感觉不同的颜色，如红色、黄色、蓝色等。

在HSL和HSV色彩空间中，H指的就是色相，是以红色为0度（360度）；黄色为60度；绿色为120度；青色为180度；蓝色为240度；品红色为300度。

Hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow" (the unique hues). Orange and violet (purple) are the other hues, for a total of six, as in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. The other color appearance parameters are colorfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness, and brightness.