Color terminology

Anne Lane <alane<-a t->infoave< . >net> writes

>We are in the process of trying to standardize the terminology we
>use in our cataloguing, and our Curator of Art was wondering if
>there is any standard terminology for color shades

In addition to Munsell, try looking at an old publication called the
Reinhold Color Atlas, published in America in 1962 from the original
published in Denmark the year before by Politikens Forlag.

With 30 plates of printing inks in a 8 by 6 matrix, they attempt to
define color names, for color regions on the charts, composed only
of basic color names. An example would be "greyish yellow". They
then key specific spots in these color fields to common color names,
such as "canary yellow," or "wax white."

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