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 is episode 7 of "Color Wheel Wednesday," and this week we're examining the DIN 6164 color system. In particular, we'll take a close look at the color wheel and hue pages in Biesalski's Pflanzenfarben-atlas! We cover how Manfred Richter updated the Ostwald color system to be truly perception-based; the Abney effect, and why the DIN blues drift toward purple as they lighten; and how a chemsit and iris breeder ended up publishing the first practical DIN color atlas, four years before the official one came out. You can explore the DIN 6164 system online here: https://virtualatlasblazor.azurewebsites.net/ #colorwheel #colortheory #arthistory