International standards for colour
T.M. Goodman, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Abstract:
This chapter discusses the internationally recognised systems and conventions that underpin colorimetry. These provide a framework for the communication and specification of colour, and for the evaluation of colour matches, colour differences and colour appearance.
Key words
Chromaticity
CIELAB
CIELUV
colorimetry
colour match
colour difference
colour appearance
illuminant
standard colorimetric observer
standard source
whiteness
7.1 Introduction
Colour is a perception, not a physical property of a material, light source or other artefact, and therefore cannot be quantified in purely physical terms. Thus colorimetry (the measurement of colours) ...
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