Author: Anne Varichon
The need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries.
“Color Charts” describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the 15th century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, and painters to catalog fragments of colors.
With the advent of industrial society, manufacturers and merchants developed some of the most beautiful and varied tools ever designed to present all the available colors.
Anne Varichon traces the emergence of modern color charts from a set of processes developed over the centuries in various contexts.
