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Color Order Systems

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Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology

Synonyms

Color atlases; Color models; Color solids; Color spaces

Definitions

  1. (a)

    A system for categorizing colors. An arrangement of color perceptions, color stimuli, or material color samples according to certain rules

  2. (b)

    A subset of the world of color according to three attributes that constitute the coordinates of the color system

  3. (c)

    A rational plan for ordering and specifying all object colors by a set of material standards

Color System Review and Evaluation

The aim of making order in the vast set of colors that humans are able to distinguish has existed since the ancient times and appears along the whole human history. Among the people who have proposed some kind of color order systems, there are famous philosophers, architects, artists, scientists, and writers, for instance, Aristotle (c.350 BC), Leon B. Alberti (1435), Leonardo da Vinci (1516), Isaac Newton (1704), and Johann W. Goethe (1810). In the twentieth century, other scientists and theorists, such as Albert H. Munsell...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 3. Mûegyetem rakpart, Budapest, Hungary

    Antal Nemcsics

  2. Secretaria de Investigaciones FADU-UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Conicet, Ciudad Universitaria Pab. 3 piso 4, C1428BFA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    José Luis Caivano

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Modern, Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Ming Ronnier Luo

  2. School of Design, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Ming Ronnier Luo

  3. Graduate Institute of Colour and Illumination, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Ming Ronnier Luo

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Nemcsics, A., Caivano, J.L. (2016). Color Order Systems. In: Luo, M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_232

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