About Color Families and Parameters

Spectre for color analyses images of your fruit and provides apple color coverage results based on whichever color you've configured your Spectre account to identify.

Before you start using Spectre, you will be asked how you'd like to group your apples into color families.


In this article we'll learn:

  • What are color parameters
  • What are color families
  • How color family and color parameter setup works

What are Color Parameters

If you're using Spectre for color, you'll need to first teach Spectre what colors you're looking for on your fruit under various lighting conditions. For example, the red of an apple can look different on a sunny day vs a cloudy day.

You'll create a setting for each lighting condition that the fruit will be under. We call these different settings "Color Parameters".

How to set up color parameters


What are Color Families

Color parameters are grouped into color families.

A Color Family is a group of varieties that have the same shade of the color you want to see on the fruit.


Here are some examples of how color families can be organized

  • A separate color family for each variety
  • Group varieties by color shade e.g. Reds, Pinks, Yellows & Greens
  • Group varieties by dominant variety e.g. Gala, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, and assign other varieties to the closest match
  • One color family for all varieties

How to set up color families

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