History of Color Systems
A true color system is extremely expensive to develop and produce. Extensive research over many years is required to define a color space that accommodates all the colors humans can see, and where those colors are evenly arranged within that … Continue reading
A Grammar of Color – Part 10: A Practical Description of the Munsell Color System with Suggestions for its Use: Color Combinations
This section of the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color, explains how to use color theory to make good two or three color combinations while maintaining harmony. Continue reading
How Color Revolutionized Our World: An Interview With Regina Lee Blaszczyk Part 4
In the final chapter of our series on The Color Revolution, we talk with author Regina Lee Blaszczyk about the importance of color theory, color trends and what Munsell would think about our color world today. … Continue reading
How Color Revolutionized Our World: An Interview With Regina Lee Blaszczyk Part 3
In Part 3 of our interview with The Color Revolution author, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, we talk about the early color swatch books, color standards and the influence of color. … Continue reading
Three Concepts of Color: A Philosopher’s Journey Part 3
There are demonstrable differences between the color vision of one person and that of another. Everyone knows about color-deficient people. … Continue reading
Three Concepts of Color: A Philosopher’s Journey Part 2
One way to escape the difficulties suggested in Part One is to factor out the observer altogether and content ourselves with regarding colors as being constituted by spectral power distributions. This is the world of physical color. … Continue reading
How Color Revolutionized Our World: An Interview With Regina Lee Blaszczyk Part 2
In Part 2 of our series, we continue our conversation with The Color Revolution author, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, discussing the auto industry, the World’s Fair of 1933 and Munsell’s “eureka” moment. … Continue reading
Three Concepts of Color: A Philosopher’s Journey
Question: A tree falls in the forest when nobody is around to hear it. Does it make a sound? … Continue reading
How Color Revolutionized Our World: An Interview With Regina Lee Blaszczyk
That scarf you bought at one store that matches a hat you bought at another is not a coincidence. For decades, color professionals have influenced the colors that are produced and promoted. In The Color Revolution, historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk … Continue reading
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