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Originally Posted by Marvin Mattelson
The difference between the Munsell Color Notation System and normal color wheels (annotated or not) is that Munsell describes a 3-D color space so you can relate your colors to each other contextually. It makes color recipes obsolete allowing you to modulate your color appropriately without needing to remember what colors you had previously mixed. .
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Marvin,
what you describe here is exactly the teaching that I received in the early sixty's when I became a house painter. I had to do a lot of scales, value, chroma and all sorts of harmony's, the whole color tree, and I loved it
Also the location of most known pigments in the color-tree.
The color wheel had only tree primary's, yellow, red, and blue, because they are the ones that can not be mixed from others.
I thought that this was common knowledge and is also why I questioned the Munsell system. I could not see any other difference than that Munsell had narrowed the orange to only half the steps compared with the green and purples.
Because of the research, lately, I have learned that Munsell has marketed the scales and is widely renown for the color cards used to compare the colors on dirt and diamonds.
I also agree with you that mixing between close colors are less hazardous than between contrasts. So maybe you don't use the contrast in the Munsell system after all ?
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