Munsell Color System Item Info

A diagram of the Munsell Color System that visually explains the concepts of Hue, Chroma (saturation), and value (brightness). A title at the top reads "Munsell Color System." A color wheel, moving through colors labeled red, yellow-red, yellow, green-yellow, green, blue-green, blue, purple-blue, purple, and red purple. The segment for purple-blue is expanded outwards, with each smaller segment being labeled from 0-12, with each number increasing in increments of 2 (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). The outermost segment, labeled 12, is the "most purple-blue," having the highest chroma, while the innermost segment, labeled 0, has the lowest chroma and is gray. In the middle of the color wheel, there is a vertical cylinder segmented into 10 parts labeled 0-10. The topmost segment, labeled 10, has the highest value and is white, while the bottommost segment, labeled 0, has the lowest value and is black. A small diagram in the upper-left corner has a vertical arrow, labeled value, an arrow circling around the vertical arrow, labeled hue, and an arrow perpendicular to the vertical arrow, labeled chroma.
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Title:
Munsell Color System
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Creator:
Jacob Rus
Date Created:
2007
Description:
A diagram of the Munsell Color System, visually displaying the concepts of hue, chroma (saturation), and value (brightness)
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image/png
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Munsell-system.svg/960px-Munsell-system.svg.png
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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