Chroma may refer to:

Science and technology

* Chroma (video), the signal used in video systems to convey the color information * Chroma, a type of

colorfulness Colorfulness, chroma and saturation are attributes of perceived color relating to chromatic intensity. As defined formally by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) they respectively describe three different aspects of chromatic ...

* Chroma, a measure of color purity in the

Munsell color system The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value (lightness), and colorfulness, chroma (color intensity). It was created by Albert Henry Munsell, Albert H. Munsell in the ...

Chroma (vector database) Chroma or ChromaDB is an open-source vector database tailored to applications with large language models. Its headquarters are in San Francisco. In April 2023, it raised 18 million US dollars as seed funding. ChromaDB has been used in academic ...

, an open-source vector database *

Chroma key Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a Visual effects, visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two or more images or video streams together based on colour hues (colorfulness, chroma range). The techniq ...

, a post-production technique for compositing two images or video streams

Arts and entertainment

Literature

* '' Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal'', a UK-based journal * ''Chroma'', a short story collection by

Frederick Barthelme Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of ''New World Writing'' (formerl ...

* ''Chroma'', a book by

Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing ...

* Chroma, a character in ''

The Phantom Tollbooth ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961 in literature, 1961. The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly recei ...

'' by Norton Juster

Music

* Chroma feature, a quality of a musical pitch class * ''Chroma'' (album), a 2005 album by Cartel * Chroma (musician) (born 1993), Japanese musician * Rhodes Chroma or ARP Chroma, a polyphonic synthesizer * "Chroma", a contemporary composition by

Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967) is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin. In a 2017 ''Classic Voice'' poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, Saunders' compositions received the third highest total ...

Video games

* ''Chroma'', a canceled 2014 video game by

Harmonix Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., doing business as Harmonix, is an American video game developer company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in May 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. Harmonix is perhaps best known as bein ...

* Chroma and Chroma Prime, playable characters from ''

Warframe ''Warframe'' is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 ...

'' * Chroma, a fictional city in the video game ''

De Blob ''De Blob'' (Stylized as ''de BLOB'') is a puzzle-platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ for the Wii. Players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil and monochromatic INKT Corporation that has tak ...

'' * Chroma, a fictional supernatural force in the video game ''

Fahrenheit The Fahrenheit scale () is a scale of temperature, temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the German-Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accou ...

'' * Chroma, a profession in the video game ''

Phantom Brave is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 video game console, developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software. It was released on January 22, 2004 in Japan, on August 31, 2004 in North America and on February 4, 2005 in Europe. The No ...

Other arts

* ''Chroma'' (ballet), a ballet by Wayne McGregor

Companies

Chroma ATE Chroma ATE Inc. 致茂電子, is a Taiwanese electronic test and measurement instrumentation company founded in 1984. The company develops and manufactures a range of electronic test and measurement equipment, automated testing equipment (ATE), s ...

, a Taiwanese electronics company *

EnChroma EnChroma are a brand of color blind glasses, color corrective lenses designed to address the symptoms of red–green color blindness. Studies have shown that these lenses can alter the appearance of colors, but they do not restore normal color vi ...

, a lens technology and eyewear company