Munsell resource

Any painter who is seri­ous about color would find it very valu­able to study the Mun­sell color sys­tem. I’ve described it here in this long arti­cle on color mixing.

This is a site with exten­sive infor­ma­tion on Mun­sell. I’ve stumbed across it sev­eral times, but hadn’t thought to post a link until now. It con­tains a reprint of a short book on Mun­sell pub­lished in 1921. While the Mun­sell ref­er­ence color chips have changed since then to take into account more pre­cise color mea­sure­ment tech­nol­ogy and new pig­ments, the basic struc­ture of Mun­sell color nota­tion has not changed; nor does it need to. It’s still the most use­ful way for artists to under­stand and describe color.

There’s some stuff on the site about mag­netic ther­apy and other mis­cel­la­nia which you should prob­a­bly ignore. But do check out the stuff on Munsell.