Color Guides & Systems
Color guides and systems make sure that color reproduction is exact across all mediums. They play an important role in maintaining color accuracy, ensuring that colors appear as intended, whether in digital, print, or physical mediums.
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Color Guides
225 colors : a selection for painters and conservators, architects and designers by
Each color is presented with an original hand-painted color swatch; In addition to information about their composition and origin, their potential and importance in application are described.
Call Number: NA2795 .T73 2017ISBN: 9783035612028Publication Date: 2017-02-20
Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors by
Select your paint with confidence and protect your valuable work. This book is about artist's paints, a guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent and the bad. It also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each color and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across.
Call Number: ReCAP 19-8808ISBN: 9780958789189Publication Date: 1997-09-15
A Book of Colors by
A concise reference that explains the meaning and force of color with charts and words. A Book of Colors is your guide to discovering, understanding, and using color.
Call Number: 3-MBM 87-1633ISBN: 0870118005Publication Date: 1987-02-15
Color - Messages and Meanings by
This guide explains the emotional response to color and covers the latest guidelines for effective color combinations including the integration of color trends. With up-to-date visuals and printing formulas to eliminate guess-work, this guide empowers and equips its users to make smart informed decisions.
Call Number: JQZ 12-2438ISBN: 9780971401068Publication Date: 2006-11-29
Color standards and color nomenclature by
Desirous for a book that would finally standardize colors and their names, Robert Ridgway, an ornithologist, took upon himself the mammoth task of producing just such a volume – covering more than a thousand colors. The enduring value of his labor is evidenced by the naturalists and artists who, a century later, continue to use it as a standard reference. Much of this value must certainly lie in the work’s impressive display of color itself: distributed among 53 plates is a true sample for every one of the 1,115 colors Ridgway has named.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk QC495 .R5 1912Publication Date: 1912
The colour handbook: how to use colour in commerce and industry by
Professional guide to colour principles, selection techniques, colour usage and trends as applied to products, graphics and selling environments.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk QC496.8 .D36 1987ISBN: 9780291397171Publication Date: 1987
The enjoyment and use of color by
This volume is arranged primarily as a text-book in color for art departments of secondary schools and colleges, but also as a book for general reading.
Call Number: 3-MBM (Sargent, W. Enjoyment and use of color)Publication Date: 1924
Hints on tints and how to mix them by
Hints on tints and how to mix them, illustrated by one hundred and seventy-five specimens of tints with an introductory essay on color and colors.
Call Number: 3-MBM 82-1252Publication Date: 1896
Historical color guide: primitive to modern times by
This guide draws inspiration from various historical works of art, creating color palettes for both artistic and business use. Paint swatches, hand glued into the book, are given delightfully descriptive names: “mummy” is an Egyptian-inspired olive green, “pouf du vent” is a pale lavender inspired by Madame de Pompadour.
Call Number: AD1286 B94Publication Date: 1938
The interactive design book for creative minds: experiment with and combine colours, shapes, patterns, and images by
The Colour Master design reference book and the following publications have a common colour basis, which, in turn, is part of the RAL DESIGN System.
Call Number: JQG 12-1290ISBN: 9783766719911Publication Date: 2012
Naturalist's Color Guide by
Analyzes each color and correlates them with many similar colors. It groups colors into color families, discusses terminology and definitions of color language with outlines of other color guides.
Call Number: JSC 02-122ISBN: 0913424048Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Nihon no iro. The color of Japan by
Containing mounted color samples, "Nihon no iro" translates to "The Color of Japan" in Japanese, essentially referring to the palette of colors considered representative of Japanese culture and aesthetics.
Call Number: *OSM+ 98-8283Publication Date: 1965
The study of colour; with lessons and exercises by
The Study of Color: With Lessons and Exercises by Michel Jacobs is a comprehensive guide to learning about color and its various properties. The book is designed to help readers understand the science behind color, how it is perceived, and how it can be used effectively in art and design.
Call Number: 3-MBM (Jacobs, M. Study of colour. 1948)Publication Date: 1948
Suggestions for the study of colour by
Suggestions for the study of colour, by H. Barrett Carpenter, includes several colour plates of decorative colour harmonies and combinations.
Call Number: 3-MBM (Carpenter, H. B. Suggestions for the study of colour. 1923)Publication Date: 1923
Color Systems
Atlas de los colores by
This is one of the most extensive colour atlases. This massive and elaborate work was an attempt to create a complete colour order system to satisfy most or all practical needs. The 7,279 colour samples each have an off-center hole of 4 mm. in diameter to aid in visually comparing them to other colour materials.
Call Number: MBM (Villalobos Domínguez, C. Atlas de los colores)Publication Date: 1947
Atlas of the Munsell color system. by
The Atlas of the Munsell Color System was first published in 1913. It consisted of two sets of charts, illustrating the Munsell system of color measurement.
Call Number: 3-MBM+ (Munsell, A. H. Atlas of the Munsell color system)Publication Date: 1915
Color and color names; sixty-four plates in color with fifteen hundred thirty-six colors by
A color reference book presenting a comprehensive collection of 1,536 distinct colors organized across 64 color plates, allowing users to easily identify and name specific hues.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk QC495 .P55 1946Publication Date: 1946
The color harmony manual and how to use it. by
Based on the principles and theory of Wilhelm Ostwald. Consists of twelve section charts and a manual (with work chart), which explains the arrangement of the color chips and how to use them.
Call Number: JSC 79-44Publication Date: 1942- Color standards and color nomenclature by
With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk QC495 .R5 1912Publication Date: 1912
Interaction of color by
Portfolio contains 80 folders of color studies, each printed in as many as 20 colors by seriography and other processes; some include mounted colored paper, some with cutouts. Some folders contain additional leaves of illustrations.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk ND1283 .A53 1963Publication Date: 1963
Munsell book of color, defining, explaining, and illustrating the fundamental characteristics of color by
Munsell book of color, defining, explaining, and illustrating the fundamental characteristics of color; a revision and extension of "The atlas of the Munsell color system" by A.H. Munsell.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk ND1285 .M8 1929Publication Date: 1929- Munsell book of color. Pocket ed. ... 1929-1942 by
Directions for the use of the charts in the Munsell book of color.
Call Number: MBM 79-652Publication Date: 1942
The New Munsell Student Color Set by
The New Munsell Student Color Set, 5th Edition, is a complete learning package that offers opportunities for experimenting with color effects using paint, paper, and computers. The text provides a complete study of color use and color science, including discussions of visual perception, optical effects, and practical application of color phenomena in fine and applied art practices.
Call Number: JBF 17-538ISBN: 9781501327520Publication Date: 2017-09-07
The Ostwald colour album: a complete collection of colour standards for use in colour specification and the study of colour harmony by
Mounted color samples; plates in pairs on cloth hinges.
Call Number: MBM (Ostwald, W. Ostwald colour album)Publication Date: 193?
The Pantone +Plus series by
Guides are fan decks; each card 24 x 5 cm.
The two Formula guides and two Color bridge guides: ©2016. The two CMYK guides: ©2010.
Issued in a padded zippered case.
Call Number: *R-ART Desk Z258 .P36 2016ISBN: 9781590654125Publication Date: 2016
Pantone Book of Color by
The Pantone book of color: over 1000 color standards: color basics and guidelines for design, fashion, furnishings, and more.
Call Number: *R-ART QC494.2 .E36 1990ISBN: 0810937115Publication Date: 1990-09-01
