Munsell color system | munsell book of color
ColorspaceTheMunsellcolorsystem,showing:acircleofhuesatvalue5chroma6;theneutralvaluesfrom0to10;andthechromasofpurple-blue(5PB)atvalue5.Incolorimetry,theMunsellcolorsystemisacolorspacethatspecifiescolorsbasedonthreepropertiesofcolor:hue(basiccolor),chroma(colorintensity),andvalue(lightness).ItwascreatedbyAlbertH.Munsellinthefirstdecadeofthe20thcenturyandadoptedbytheUnitedStatesDepartmentofAgriculture(USDA)astheofficialcolorsystemforsoilresearchinthe1930s.Severalearliercolorordersystemshadplac...
Color space
The Munsell color system, showing: a circle of hues at value 5 chroma 6; the neutral values from 0 to 10; and the chromas of purple-blue (5PB) at value 5.In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), chroma (color intensity), and value (lightness). It was created by Albert H. Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century and adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the official color system for soil research in the 1930s.
Several earlier color order systems had placed colors into a three-dimensional color solid of one form or another, but Munsell was the first to separate hue, value, and chroma into perceptually uniform and independent dimensions, and he was the first to illustrate the colors systematically in three-dimensional space.[1] Munsells system, particularly the later renotations, is based on rigorous measurements of human subjects vis...