Color terminology

Color, color perception, and color characterization, i.e.,
descriptive and classification schemes, is a large and rich topic. I
claim no expertise, but know a little. Munsell (which has acquired
Macbeth the color-balanced observation lighting people or vice
versa, a natural as color is a consequent of light) has a Web site
("Who doesn't") <URL:http://munsell/com>. The Munsell System--"hue,
value, chroma"--is one of the industry standards, but not the only
one. One of the AIC/Norfolk post-conference sessions was done by
Richard W. Hunter of HunterLab. If you can find someone who was
there, try to borrow their ring binder, full of goodies too numerous
to list.

Anyone getting into this should without fail get a copy of the
monograph associated with HunterLab--Hunter and Harold, The
Measurement of Appearance, 2nd ed., Wiley 1987. In addition to all
the topics relating to "appearance," of which color is one, it pulls
together and discusses, in one convenient place, *all* the various
color "systems," including Munsell, CIE, etc, demystifying much. I
would not have thought possible to publish a book like this without
a single color plate (especially at the price), but it is
indispensable despite that.

Henry Grunder
Conservation/Preservation Coordinator
The Library of Virginia

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