A short-form series on the color wheels you've never heard of, and why they were built. Each episode covers one wheel: what problem it was solving, who made it, and what it gets right or wrong. New episodes every Wednesday.
Curated by: Color Nerd (18 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