Color expression comes in many shades. Thanks to the work of Albert H. Munsell, color expression has never been easier and more accurate. If Munsell were here today, he would most definitely have blogged about color and his work in helping you communicate color more effectively. So in the spirit of Munsell’s passion for making sense of color, we created the Munsell color blog to continue Munsell’s legacy of color expression in art, industry and education.
Visit the color blog often to learn new and interesting applications for Munsell Color from art and agriculture to design, science and more!
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Have you ever designed a graphics project, an interior, applied cosmetic or dressed yourself under one lighting condition and everything looked perfectly fine? But when you looked at the same colors in...
Color branding has been used in corporate identity branding for years to invoke emotion and is an element of brand recognition. Color is an obvious identifier, and it helps us create meaningful and memorable...
A.H. Munsell thought of everything when he developed the Munsell Color Order System, including the top ten reasons why it works so well. So Munsell was not only an artist with latent scientist tendencies,...
It was 1900, and as Albert Munsell continued to develop the Munsell Color Theory, he was determined to put his color system to work in education. After all, Munsell was as much an educator as an artist,...
Soil color is like a family tree. It tells scientists about the present and the past. Just as the family tree might help explain how you ended up with curly hair, soil color reveals the composition...
Albert Munsell again returned to his artist roots to develop the color chroma scale, which refers to the strength (also known as saturation) or weakness of a given color. The chroma color attribute completes...
Colorway Design for Branding The Munsell color system is a tool that I rely on to accurately identify colors in the field. In many cases it’s a basis on which I accurately locate an existing color or...
Albert Munsell had "color conviction." He was determined to develop an effective, systematic  means for communicating and teaching color, much like the three-dimensional system of music where each...
Imagine yourself back in the late 1800's… electric light bulbs were "high tech" and Albert H. Munsell, being from the metropolitan Boston area, was unlikely to have indoor plumbing. But what really...
Richard Frumess, President of R&F Handmade Paints, shares his experiences using the Munsell color system to test for lightfastness and create color standards for their high-quality oil sticks and encaustic...
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