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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Color Standards and Color Nomenclature
Robert Ridgway
72 pages~1 hr 26 min read19 chapters$4.99
How do you describe a color so precisely that anyone can match it? Robert Ridgway answered for a generation of naturalists, fixing standard names and samples for hundreds of hues. His reference gave scientists a shared vocabulary for the exact shade of a feather or petal. A quietly essential work. For anyone who has struggled to name a color truly.
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Inside this book
19 chapters
- 1COLOR STANDARDS AND COLOR NOMENCLATURE
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4PROLOGUE
- 5Plan
- 6Color Names
- 7Color Terms
- 8Table of percentages of Component Colors in Spectrum Hues
- 9Table of percentages of White and Black in Tone Scales
- 10Table of percentages of Neutral Gray in Broken Colors
- 11Table of percentages of Black and White in tones of Carbon Gray
- 12Dyes and Pigments used in Coloring of Maxwell Disks
- 13Alphabetical List of Colors represented on Plates
- 14Colors of old edition Not Represented on Plates
- 15List of Useful Books on Color
- 16FOOTNOTES
- 17PLATES
- 18EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXII AND XXIV.
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