Munsell Color System; Color Matching from Munsell Color Company | Color Blog About Munsell FAQs Munsell Color Products Contact Agriculture, Government standards, Archeology, Industrial, Education, Interior design, Environmental studies, Pharmaceutical, Food Products Product Development, Geology, Safety Munsell Color is comprised of the original Munsell Color Company that Albert H. Munsell started nearly a century ago. Our specialty is developing and producing physical color standards based on Munsell... The Munsell Color order system is designed for the way you see and process color. That means you can literally take a color notation and visually imagine how it will look. After all, the developer of... Every Munsell color that you communicate gives you complete confidence… we guarantee it! When you need to communicate color reliably, the Munsell color matching system quality practices ensure that... You know the color you want… the Munsell Color System lets your partners and suppliers know too. Where ever you need to establish and communicate color, the Munsell Color System makes it easy. Choose... Applying Munsell Analogous and Complementary Color Harmonies to Visualizing a Computationally Modeled Hurricane In our blog entry on “Visual Analytics with Complementary and Analogous Color Harmony”, we discussed how to build the Munsell Color Wheel and presented Complementary and Analogous color harmony examples. In today’s blog entry, we highlight how to combine these concepts to build a complex color harmony for a scientific data visualization of a computationally modeled hurricane. read more » From Color Poms to Weaving Colorways Color has always fascinated me. When I was a young girl I was flabbergasted when I’d witness a woman whose outfit combined two different reds. I wondered ~ did she KNOW the colors didn’t “match?” Did she realize it was a huge error in judgement when she chose that outfit? It disturbed me. If I had any clairvoyance, I would have known that those curiosities would fuel me forward to my career. read more » Reaching for Color Knowledge in the Leaves of a Tree As I’m siting at my desk with a pencil in my hand, and a search light in my head turned on – I find myself on a quest to find a visual image for my inspiration. It flickers and fades, but I’m like an archeologist, I won’t give up, I’ll be excavating my soul with a sharp pencil and I’ll dig it out. I will bring it to life, give it a shape, and make it visible. I will show others what’s keeps lurking in my head since I was a little girl. I’ll find the way… read more » Saturated at Cooper Hewitt: A Fascinating Look at the World of Color We got a chance to speak with Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi, Reference Librarian at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, to talk about a new color exhibit, Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color. read more » Shades of Grey: An Interview with Jasper Fforde I recently read a book about shades of grey. No, not that book. I’m talking about Shades of Grey, a novel by Jasper Fforde, and you wouldn’t have to be ashamed to read this book in public. read more » Star Wars Planetary Soil Colors Imagined Planets in Star Wars films often challenge scientific standards of real life environments and their resulting soil surfaces. However, these intriguing lands, even if geologically odd, are truly fun to imagine and of course, to notate. read more » The New Anatomy of Colour – David Briggs Webinar International Colour Day is March 21st, and to celebrate, Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) is hosting a webinar with painter and teacher David Briggs, who will be presenting at the Munsell Centennial Color Symposium in June. read more » An Interview with ‘Color Doctor’ Joan Levy Hepburn Tell us about the color separation company you founded I’ve been a painter my whole life. Around the time I graduated from art school, no one was really helping painting students figure out what to do for a real job, you had to figure it out yourself. read more » View More Stories FIND PRODUCT SITE SEARCH ABOUT MUNSELL How Color Notation Works Why Munsell? Development of the Munsell Color Order System Munsell Color Company History Munsell Color Project Stories Published Work MUNSELL PRODUCTS Color Communications Custom Color Services Color Vision Tests Color Education Color Standards OTHER PRODUCTS How Color Notation Works Why Munsell? Development of the Munsell Color Order System Munsell Color Company History Munsell Color Project Stories Published Work SUBSCRIBE TO FEED » ABOUT MUNSELL COLOR BLOG MUNSELL COLOR PRODUCTS Color Communications Custom Color Services Color Standards CONTACT TERMS OF USE SITEMAP PRIVACY POLICY COOKIE POLICY DO NET SELL OR SHARE MY DATA Official Site of Munsell Color © 2026, X-Rite, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Munsell Color is a division of X-Rite, Incorporated.
