A short-form series on historical and contemporary color wheels, and why they were built. Each episode discusses what problem a color wheel (or wheels) tried to solve, who made it, and what it gets right or wrong. We end up covering a lot of color theory ground in the process! New episodes every Wednesday.
Curated by: Color Nerd (24 videos)
This color wheel has five primaries - in fact, it's really a color pentagon. That geometry suggests it's based on the Munsell system... but it isn't. Carl Foss's 1946 Nu-Hue system was built for a completely different purpose: helping ordinary people navigate paint color choices by limiting and ordering the pigments and mixing methods used. (If only modern paint brands did something like this!) Foss also developed the system to coordinate with the Ostwald-based Color Harmony Manual, recently (1942) developed by Walter Granville and Egbert Jacobson. Thanks for stopping by. New Color Wheel Wednesday every week! I encourage you to check out Roy Osborne's book, "The Color Coursebook" (2023). #colortheory #colorwheel #arthistory