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Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
- jimhefferon 8y agoThis is beautiful. Thanks for posting. Can I ask a question? I'm not sure I have the words to ask it, but my best attempt is: inside the colors it is speckled; what are the speckles? For instance, #36 is described as a mix of Berlin Blue and Carmine Red. But if I look closely, that I can see, none of the speckles are reddish. Are they greys? Obviously I'm looking to reproduce for my own stuff. I'd be glad for any pointers.
- rougeux 8y agoThank you. Creator here. The speckles you see are from the scans of the original swatches and them aging over time.
- jimhefferon 8y agoThanks. I find they give a character and complexity that adds to the visual interest. Could I get a very high-res picture of one or two chips? I'd like a better idea of what I am admiring.
- sp332 8y agoThe original item at archive.org was scanned at 300 DPI and doesn't seem to have high-rez samples. https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743312 https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743312 Edit: I downloaded the whole item using this torrent https://archive.org/download/gri_c00033125012743312/gri_c00033125012743312_archive.torrent https://archive.org/download/gri_c00033125012743312/gri_c000... and the original TIFF images do look better than the JPEGs in the book browser. https://i.imgur.com/LOMiXUU.png https://i.imgur.com/LOMiXUU.png
- jimhefferon 8y agoThanks; I'll have a look.
- gardaani 8y agoWould it be possible to average the colors in swatches and display a solid color version somewhere? And also show the hex-color for it?
- rougeux 8y agoI sampled each of the colors and included hex codes in the spreadsheet with the rest of the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10w7UebIDqN6ChEpBwLDQmAgVZZhLtKvnrLeNnBjJmsc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10w7UebIDqN6ChEpBwLDQ...
- gardaani 8y agoSorry, I didn't check the data link at the bottom of the page. Thanks for doing it!
- aasasd 8y agoSince the color samples are taken from the digitization of the original book, with little or no change, I'd bet on wear and introduction of dust over the years as the source for most impurities. See https://archive.org/stream/gri_c00033125012743312#page/n45 https://archive.org/stream/gri_c00033125012743312#page/n45
- pjc50 8y agoThe animal (mostly bird)/vegetable/mineral life references are brilliant, and I wonder how familiar they are to the readers of today.
- tveita 8y agoThe descriptions are nice but unfortunately the sRGB gamut won't do a book like this justice. Hopefully monitors will improve - I'm sure if you got used to a full gamut screen, it would be as hard to go back as it is to go back to a 640x480 resolution screen today. Maybe people will make retro sRGB games! ;) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cie_Chart_with_sRGB_gamut_by_spigget.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cie_Chart_with_sRGB_...