Project Gutenberg 2020-08-31 Public domain in the USA. 429 Ridgway, Robert 1850 1929 13007093 Color Standards and Color Nomenclature With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors Produced by La Monte H.P. Yarroll and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Color Standards and Color Nomenclature" by Robert Ridgway is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book aims to establish a standardized nomenclature for colors to aid various industries and scientific disciplines in their communication of color variations. It compiles an extensive reference of 1,115 named colors, complemented by 53 colored plates that visually illustrate the gamut of hues. The opening of the work begins with a preface outlining the author's motivations for creating a comprehensive system to standardize colors and their names. Ridgway emphasizes the chaos in current color nomenclature and the importance of clear communication among naturalists and other professionals who rely on precise color descriptions. He explains the systematic arrangement of colors based on the solar spectrum and offers insights into the challenges he faced during the preparation of this reference, including unifying diverse sources of color names and ensuring accurate representation of colors through meticulous experimentation with dyes and pigments. This sets the stage for the detailed classification and visual representation that follow in the subsequent sections of the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 51.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Colors QC Text Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference 1127298 2025-09-25T06:06:39.615458 text/html 1485469 2024-10-18T05:35:06 text/html 3701174 2025-09-25T06:07:02.755333 application/epub+zip 3700177 2025-09-25T06:06:45.523402 application/epub+zip 191948 2025-09-25T06:06:42.995426 application/epub+zip 3831464 2025-09-25T06:07:11.526748 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3580226 2025-09-25T06:07:00.362309 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 268135 2022-09-28T12:33:45.741253 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 202842 2025-09-25T06:06:31.206472 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 183057 2024-10-18T05:35:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16237 2025-09-25T06:07:11.761777 application/rdf+xml 11689 2025-09-25T06:06:43.342400 image/jpeg 2174 2025-09-25T06:06:43.172383 image/jpeg 3105225 2025-09-25T06:06:41.832394 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia