How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics Part 5
Statistics on Colors The data from the World Color Survey was extracted from handwritten notes to an electronic data set where each data point connects one speaker, one language, one specific Munsell color and one color term with each other. … Continue reading
Beyond Average Color Vision: An Interview with Tetrachromat Artist Concetta Antico
The average person can perceive 1 million colors. The cones in our eyes absorb the different wavelengths of light and send signals to our brains that are translated into the colors we see. … Continue reading
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics Part 4
Statistics on Color: Linguistics Research after the Munsell Revolution As we saw in the preceding blogposts, the Munsell charts were an important tool in the work by Berlin and Kay (1969) for finding a system for the progression of color … Continue reading
The Dress Debate Continues
We imagine everyone feels ready to move on from the topic of #thedress, but when you live in the world of color, is it hard to stop finding a reason to bring it up again. We recently came across an … Continue reading
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics Part 3
Discovering the Munsell Chart: Lenneberg, Roberts, Berlin & Kay First – why are modern day researchers using the Munsell chart (or similar charts) instead of the Holmgren wool test and the Lovibond tintometer? … Continue reading
The Many Moods of Mud
What is the Color of Mud? Most people would answer brown. But in the core lab of the JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship, the sedimentologists would beg to differ. … Continue reading
Chocolate Color Notation
Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate we decided to bring a bag full of chocolate bars down to the Munsell Color Lab to have them determine the color notation for each. There were some interesting discoveries along the way… … Continue reading
Rusty Soils in the Boreal Forest
What Marsala Means to an Environmental Consultant The color Munsell 5R 4/6, as well as many similar reddish colors, often indicate oxidation or rust – the presence of iron oxide – in Boreal Forest soils. The presence of these deep … Continue reading
Musing About Marsala: Do Archaeologists Have a Color of the Year?
My first reaction to Pantone’s announcement about the color of the year, “Marsala” was “delicious!” The name stirred fond recollections of a few nice evenings. … Continue reading
What Scientists Think of the 2015 Pantone Color of the Year: Marsala
Color lovers who follow the latest color trends would know that Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2015 is Marsala, also known as Pantone 18-1438. For Pantone, “Much like the fortified wine that gives Marsala its name, this tasteful hue … Continue reading
