Munsell color system
Sistema de color de Munsell
- Date
- c. 1905 · confidence medium
- Place
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Albert Henry Munsell
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A color space that separates hue, value and chroma into perceptually uniform, independent dimensions, based on rigorous measurements of human visual response; adopted by the USDA for soil studies.
What it led to
- Official adoption in soil classification
- Later color models such as CIELAB and CIECAM02