Tag Archives: colour measurement

A Cultural History of Color

I received a copy of the book today – A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age. It is one of a six-book volume published by Bloomsbury. In this one I have a chapter co-authored with Qianqian Pan entitled Technology and Trade. In short, we look at the key technological developments in the 20th century and their effect on culture and commerce. The developments we focus on the growth of the synthetic dye industry, colour imaging technology and colour measurement. You can probably get a copy of my chapter through my ResearchGate page.

colour physics 101

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Download my colour physics FAQ e-book for the Kindle here.

Also available as a physical book from Amazon.

  • What is colour?
  • How does colour vision work?
  • Why is the sky blue?
  • What is the colour spectrum?

The answers to these and many other related questions about colour physics are each provided in a short and easy-to-understand form. Will delight and entertain colour professionals and curious members of the public.

swatchmate

Very interested in this new colour-measurement device called the swatchmate cube.

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The new device is launched by Swatchmate on November 13th. That;s two day’s time from now. It captures the colour and displays it on your smartphone. Does it provide any numerical data such as CIELAB? I don’t know. How much is it? I don’t know. I guess we’ll find out at the launch!!