![]() In 1915 he followed up the research with the Atlas of the Munsell Color System. He then formed the Munsell Company in 1917. Munsell first published his research in 1905 in the book A Color Notation. Brands and designers can purchase the Munsell Book of Color in vibrant to neutral colors and in glossy or matte finishes. The Munsell Color System is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). Munsell wanted to create uniformity in the way a color is described and differentiated. Munsell devised a numerical scale to identify a color, rather than use traditional naming conventions which can be easily misinterpreted. In 2014, historian Erik Kwakkel shared the content and images of this fantastic book with the rest of the world.Īlbert Munsell was an artist and professor of art at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Only one copy of this handwritten book exists, and it’s on display at the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. What makes the book unique is how Boogert names the shades, including their listing in an index. At almost 900 pages, it is an impressive showing of multiple colors in differing shades. This book is thought to be one of the earliest example of a comprehensive guide to colors. The book is described as an “illuminated mirror of painting, in which we treat all kinds of watercolors with the description of their preparation and their mixture, which is very useful to represent and color the engravings and drawings from nature.” While little is known about the author, scholars believe the book titled, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’ea, was used to teach aspiring painters how to mix watercolor paints to create certain hues and change their tone by adding one, two or three parts water. ![]() More than three centuries ago, a Dutch artist by the name A. ![]()
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