In our previous blog entry on “Visual Analytics with Complementary and Analogous Color Harmony," we discussed how to build the Munsell Color Wheel and presented Complementary and Analogous color harmony...
The Munsell color system uses a numerical scale to identify color, rather than "traditional naming conventions" which can be easily misinterpreted. The system helps create uniformity in the way a color...
This text is an insert from the first volume of the Munsell Book of Color Pocket Edition from 1942, and outlines the use of the color charts. A pocket-sized adaptation of the original Book of Color, it was intended...
In this blog, we discuss how to create a color wheel using the Munsell color order system and how to apply concepts of the resulting color harmony to developing visual analytics.
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These definitions, taken from the Munsell Manual of Color, were originally published in 1929.
Learning the meaning behind color terms, will help to better understand how the color system works.
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This "little booklet" was originally published in 1929 and contains summarized materials from the Munsell Book of Color. It was intended to reach a wider audience, to help facilitate a basic understanding...
Our interview series celebrating 100 years of the National Park Service in the United States and the important role soil plays in these parks continues. We head to Massachusetts to gaze at the expansive...
Color is a tricky thing. It seems so self-evident, so objective, so out there. It's something we see, something we smell, something we even seem to taste. And yet color as we know it is also a function...
The concept of “color space” as presented in the Munsell system makes a lot of sense, but it can be difficult to describe. Making the concept easier to grasp requires a visual representation – if...
Our interview series celebrating 100 years of the National Park Service in the United States and the important role soil plays in these parks continues. We head over to the most eastern state to speak...