Color Standards and Color Nomenclature
by Robert Ridgway
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929
- Title
- Color Standards and Color Nomenclature With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors
- Credits
- Produced by La Monte H.P. Yarroll and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Colors
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63087
- Release Date
- August 31, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.COLOR STANDARDS AND COLOR NOMENCLATURE
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.PROLOGUE — Plan — Color Names — Color Terms
- 8.TABLE OF PERCENTAGES OF COMPONENT COLORS IN THE CONNECTING HUES OF THE CHROMATIC SCALE.
- 9.TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF WHITE AND BLACK, RESPECTIVELY, IN EACH TONE OF THE TONE OR LUMINOSITY SCALES.
- 10.TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGES OF NEUTRAL GRAY IN THE BROKEN COLOR SCALES.
- 11.TABLE OF PERCENTAGE OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE DIFFERENT TONES OF CARBON GRAY.
- 12.DYES AND PIGMENTS USED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE MAXWELL DISKS, REPRESENTING THE THIRTY-SIX COLORS OF THE PURE SPECTRUM SCALE, FORMING THE BASIS OF THE COLOR-SCHEME OF THIS WORK. [29]
- 13.ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COLORS REPRESENTED ON PLATES OF THIS WORK
- 14.THE FOLLOWING COLORS REPRESENTED IN THE OLD "NOMENCLATURE OF COLORS" (1886) CANNOT BE MATCHED BY COLORS IN THE PRESENT WORK. THEY ARE INTERMEDIATES, EITHER AS TO HUE OR TONE (SOMETIMES BOTH), AND WOULD FALL IN UNCOLORED SPACES, AS INDICATED BY THE NUMERALS AND LETTERS APPENDED TO EACH:—
- 15.A FEW OF THE MODERN BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT OF COLOR WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK HAS FOUND MOST USEFUL
- 16.FOOTNOTES
- 17.CAUTION!!!
- 18.EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXII AND XXIV.
- 19.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
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