A Brief Introduction To Monsel Color System Of Clothing Color

　　 color There are also "three circumferences". If you care enough about it and touch it with a scientific eye, it will bring color temperature to the world. In this issue, we will introduce the content of Munsell color system in detail.

In order to strengthen color education, American painter Munsell standardized the three attributes of color and formed an equidistant configuration. Finally, he invented the Munsell color stereo, which was systematically modified by American Optics, and finally the Munsell color system was born. Munsell color system consists of three concepts: hue, lightness and purity.

Hue

The basic colors of the hue are red (R), yellow (Y), green (G), blue (B), and purple (P) that can form a visual equal interval, and then insert yellow red (YR), yellow green (GY), blue green (BG), blue purple (PB), and red purple (RP) among them to form the basic hue of ten colors.

Each of the basic 10 hue is subdivided into 10 equal parts to form 100 hue, which are distributed in 360 ° of the circumference. For example, red R is divided into 1R, 2R, 3R... 9R, 10R, and then 1YR, 2YR... the color initially selected is used as the representative color of each color phase, which is marked with 5, such as 5R, 5YR, 5Y... 5RP.

　　 Lightness Value

The lightness is based on the stage without color. The ideal black with zero reflectivity is set as 0, and the ideal white with 100% reflectivity is set as 10. Divide it at an equal distance in the middle, and then use the scale of decimal method to express it. There are 11 brightness color scales in total. The lightness of the highest purity color of each hue varies according to the hue.

Purity Chroma

Set the achromatic purity to 0, and gradually increase the purity value as the brightness of the color increases. The highest purity value varies with the hue. It extends radially from the axis representing the lightness stage without color to each hue.

The hue, lightness and purity defined by Munsell constitute the Munsell color stereo. Color can be expressed in two ways: with color, it is expressed in hue, lightness and purity; The colorless lightness is represented by the initial letter N of Neutral plus a number. The vertical axis of the color stereo center is colorless color N, the top is white, and the bottom is black, forming a circular hue ring with the vertical axis as the center, and the horizontal radiation starting from the vertical axis is each hue. To use a globe as a metaphor, the North Pole is white, the South Pole is black, latitude is lightness, and longitude is hue. The hue ring is on the surface of the color stereo, and is the color with the highest purity of each hue.

Munsell color stereo systematizes and standardizes the original unordered color, and provides a quantitative standard for the use of color. stay Design , printing, dyeing and other fields have played an important role.