The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Traditional Color Names
In this section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929, 24 traditional color names are identified along with charts outlining their hue, value and chroma. … Continue reading
Know Your Oranges: Color Definition
How well do you know your shades of orange? Let’s find out with a game of match the color sample to its name. … 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
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
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics Part 2
Rivers, Train Crashes, Beer: The Pros and Cons of Pre-Munsell Experiments There is only so much one can get out of reading old texts, if one is interested in the universality of something. At some point someone has to go … Continue reading
How the Munsell Book of Color Revolutionized Linguistics
Why are Linguists Interested in Color? If you speak Greek, Japanese or Russian, the English language must seem rather poor when it comes to describing shades of blue. All of these languages have two words for blue, where English only … Continue reading
