Talk:Munsell color system

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[edit] Any modern munsell-based tools?

Are there any color pickers in Mac OS X (or elsewhere) that are based on the Munsell system? It seems that most tools are based on a hue wheel which changes luminosity as it goes around, making them much less useful for picking equiluminous color schemes. --jacobolus (t) 23:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

There's a Windows Munsell Conversion program from here. I've also found some web-based color pickers, but can't track down my reference for them. Argyriou (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
There's also EasyRGB's "Color Harmonies", which tries to pick colors which go together. Argyriou (talk) 22:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] what does it mean that munsell is "deficient by modern standards"

This gets a citation, but no explanation, so I'm tempted to take it out of the article, as it doesn't really inform the reader, and just sounds like trash talk. I have no problem with including such statements, but they need to also explain in what way it is deficient, etc. --jacobolus (t) 01:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

But the statement is explained, I cite: "it didn't have the correct hues for cyan and magenta and it didn't recognize these hues as local value peaks so it rendered the color circle of saturated colors as a linear gradient from light to dark".--MWAK 06:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)