Ridgway, Robert, Color standards and color nomenclature

(Washington, D. C. :  The author,  1912.)

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PROLOGUE
 

As stated in the Preface, the purpose of this work
is the standardization of colors and color nomenclature,
so that naturalists or others who may have occasion to
write or speak of colors may do so with the certainty
that there need be no question as to what particular tint,
shade, or degree of grayness, of any color or hue is
meant. Therefore, it is unnecessary to treat of the subject
from any other point of view ; it will be sufficient to say
that this work is based on a thorough study of the subject
from every standpoint, and that practically all authori¬
tative works on the subject of color have been carefully
consulted.*

Plan.—The scientific arrangement of colors in this
work is based essentially on the suggestions of Professor
J. H. Pillsbury for a scheme of color standards,+ which
have also been the basis of several other efforts toward the
same end, as the plates in Milton Bradley's "Elementary
Color" and educational colored papers, Prang's charts of
standard colors, Klinkseick and Valette's "Code des
Couleurs," etc.; but while all these present a scientifi¬
cally arranged color-scheme and more or less adequate

♦Titles of several t)ooks on the subject which are especially recommended to the
lay student of chromatology are given at the end of this text.

+13ee Science, June 9, 1893, and Nalnre, Vol. LII, No. 1.347, Aug. 22, 189.5, j.|..
390-392.
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