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I made a chart representing the WCS’s color chips as accurately as possible on an sRGB computer display and sent it to Kay a few years ago: http://www1.icsi.be
by jacobolus 9y ago
I made a chart representing the WCS’s color chips as accurately as possible on an sRGB computer display and sent it to Kay a few years ago:
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/images/jrus-20100531/wcs-chart-4x.png http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/images/jrus-20100531/wcs-c...
You can’t get a complete idea of what the original color chips looked like, as quite a few of them are outside the sRGB gamut (so what you get in this picture is a less colorful representation of the same lightness/hue). But it should give you a reasonable impression.
Here’s a more continuous picture of the full sRGB gamut in Munsell space, along with some points of interest:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Color-map-2.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Color-map-2.p...
(For example you can see that the ISCC–NBS labels for sRGB primaries are “reddish orange”, “greenish yellow”, and “purplish blue”, respectively)
If you actually look at a chart where a bunch of Munsell color chips of different hues are all presented at the same lightness (value) and chroma, and you have standard color vision, then they should look pretty well equally spaced. (Or the same story for holding any pair of attributes constant and varying the third.)
One significant problem with trying to glance at and interpret these kinds of more limited hue–value charts (i.e. not the full set of Munsell chips) is that the chroma varies from one part of the chart to another, and chroma differences are often more salient than hue differences.
But some named categories are certainly larger and fuzzier than others.