Abstract
Colour surrounds and affects us all. This is not new. Primitive man, we may assume, was depressed by a grey sky, cheered by a blue one, and awed by the sight of a full rainbow. Certainly the colours which could be obtained from the earth and plants intrigued him to the extent that he used them for body painting and to decorate his cave dwelling. Colour in commerce followed swiftly. Cloth, glass, stones and pottery, goods that were aesthetically pleasing, could be traded for food. This commercial aspect has continued to grow through the years until almost everything in our lives is coloured. Books, films, television, packages, and now more and more newspapers, appear in colour.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Kubelka, P. and Munk, F. Z. Tech. Physik 12, 593 (1931).
Newton, Isaac. Opticks. London Innys (1730), pp. 134–7.
Wright, W. D. The Measurement of Colour. (1969), pp. 4–12.
Philips Lighting, Fluorescent Lamp Data. Handbooks 6.2.1. and 6. 2. 10.
Wright, op. cit., Chapter 2, The perception of light and colour.
Ishihara, S. Tests for Colourblindness 38 plate edn. (1974).
McLaren, K. The Colour Science of Dyes and Pigments. (1983), pp. 85–8.
Chamberlin, G. J. and D. G. Colour, its Measurement, Computation and Application. (1979) pp. 9–12.
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Cambridge University Press (1890).
McLaren, op. cit., pp. 96–102.
Ibid., pp. 102–7.
Patterson, D. Pigments, An Introduction to their Physical Chemistry. (1967).
Chambers, E. Manual of Graphic Reproduction for Lithography. Chapter 9–11.
Wright, op. cit.
Munsell, A. M. Munsell Book of Color (1905); Nickerson, D. History of the Munsell color system. Color Eng. 7(5), (1969); Chamberlin and Chamberlin, op. cit., pp. 22–5.
McLaren, op. cit., Chapter 10, The quantification of colour differences.
Handbook of Industrial Colour Technology. Instrumental Colour Systems Ltd.
Clarke, F. J. J., McDonald, R. and Rigg, P. Modification to the JPC 79 colour difference formula. J. Soc. Dyers and Colourists 100, 128–32 (April 1984).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1988 Society of British Printing Ink Manufacturers Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Brown, J. (1988). Colour and Colour Matching. In: Leach, R.H., Armstrong, C., Brown, J.F., Mackenzie, M.J., Randall, L., Smith, H.G. (eds) The Printing Ink Manual. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7097-0_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7097-0_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-011-7099-4
Online ISBN: 978-94-011-7097-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive