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Colour measuring equipment

  
image: Brown and blue shade card
  
image: Hue, brightness, saturation
    
   
How do we describe colour?

The language we often use to describe colour can be imprecise, for example we talk about the colour blue, but there are pale blues, dark blues, reddish blues and greenish blues.

Is it possible to have a more accurate vocabulary to explain what we see?

Colour science has developed the terms hue, brightness and saturation.

        
 
image: Ceramic colour standards
            
   
image: Munsell colour solid screen

Also See:

Dyers' notebooks
Fastness tests
Investigating colour vision