Munsellcolor system

A system developed in Germany around 1910 by painter, professor, and color theorist Albert H. Munsell, who wanted to describe color with the same degree of specificity with which we can speak about music. Based on rigorous measurements of people’s visual responses to color, the Munsell color system specifies and orders colors based on three dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (intensity or purity). In addition to being the simplest color system to grasp, it was employed by most of the New York School.