Munsell Color Space

The Munsell Color System, is a color space for describing color of surfaces and has closest application to pigments. It uses an irregular 3-dimensional color space. The dimensions are hue, represented as a circle, value (brightness), along the central axis, and chroma, the purity of a colour as measured along an axis; the farther from the axis, the purer the colour. Changes in each dimension are intended to be perceptually equal within the dimension, so that an increase of chroma from 3 to 4 is perceived as the same difference as an increase from 7 to 8. As a result, the color space is not geometrically regular, unlike most color systems developed previously.

The Munsell system has five primary hues: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. Color is described using the notation H V/C, for Hue, Value, and Chroma.

Hue is notated with a number and the letter(s) representing the primary or secondary color being represented, while value and chroma are notated purely with numbers. For example, a vivid orange may be 5YR 7/12. Numbers for hue range from 0 to 10 at each primary or secondary color, and increase in the direction from red to yellow. The primary colors use the initial letter of the color name, while the secondary colors use the initial letters of the two primary colors nearest, thus YR for orange.

Value - The letter N is used for pure grays (including black and white). Value is measured from 0 (pure black) to 10 (pure white), though a value of slightly higher than 9 is the highest practically obtainable.

Chroma is measured in equal perceptual steps. In the original Munsell system, 10 was the highest chroma possible, but advances in pigmenting technologies have made possible materials with chroma ranging over 20, and fluorescent materials can have chroma greater than 30.

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