65MUNSELL SYSTEM
A color model and specification system created by the artist and art educator Albert Munsell in the early 1900s
Influenced by the science of color, Munsell based his color notation system on color perception rather than paint mixing. The Munsell system has five principal hues (red, yellow, green, blue, and purple) and three attributes, which he called dimensions (hue, value, and chroma).
Noting the need for accurate measurements to describe color variations, Munsell invented a photometer for determining value, equivalent in contemporary terms to lightness. To determine chroma, he used Maxwell disks to compare the visual color ...
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