Updated 24 August 2023, this reference list has been complied as a survey of color-related books, texts, and documents sourced from private collections, university libraries plus the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, Smithsonian Institution and similar reputable online resources and institutions.
Albers, J. (1963). Interaction of color. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Augé, C. (1906). Nouveau Larousse illustré : Dictionnaire universel encycloedique (Supplement). Paris: Librairie Larousse. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/nouveaularoussei00laro/
Bacon, J. (1866). The theory of colouring. London: George Rowney and Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/theorycolouring00bacogoog
Barnard, G. The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts. London: George Routledge & Sons; 1871. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/theorypracticeof00barn/
Batchelder, E. A. (1904). The principles of design. Chicago: The Inland Printer. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/principlesofdesi00batcuoft/
Baumann, P. (1912). Baumanns Neue Farbentonkarte, System Prase. Aue, Saxony: P. Baumann.
Bayer, H., Gropius, W. & Gropius, I. (1975). Bauhaus 1919 - 1928. London: Secker & Warburg.
Bendin, E. & Mauersberger, K. (2012). Sammlung Farbenlehre hat neues Studio für Ausstellungen. Dresdner Universitätsjournal, July 2012. Accessible at https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/ressourcen/dateien/universitaetsjournal/uj_pdfs/uj_2012/UJ07-12.pdf
Benson, W. (1868). The Principles of the Science of Colour, concisely stated to aid and promote their useful applications in the Decorative Arts. London: Chapman and Hall. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125008694651/
Bezold, W. (1874). Die Farbenlehre im Hinblick auf Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. Braunschweig: Verlag von George Westermann. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/diefarbenlehreim00bezo/
Blanc, C. (1861). Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. Paris: Renouard. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/histoiredespeint13blanuoft/
Blanc, C. (1867). Grammaire des arts du dessin. Paris: Ve. Jules Renouard. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/grammairedesarts00blan_2/
Boogert, A. (1692). Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau [Color qualities of watercolor paint]. Place of publication and publisher not known Accessible at https://archive.org/details/boogert1692traitedescouleursbmejanes/
Bossert, H. (1928). An encyclopaedia of colour decoration from the earliest times to the middle of the XIXth century. Berlin: E. Wasmuth. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofc00boss/
Boutet, Claude. (1708). Traité de la peinture en miniature (The art of painting in miniature). Paris. Accessible at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5821876p.texteImage/
Bradley, M. (1895). Elementary Color. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company. Accessed from https://archive.org/details/elementarycolor00brad/
Bradley, M. (1897). The Color Primer: Teachers’ Edition. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company. Accessed from https://archive.org/details/colorprimer00brad/
British Museum (2020). Biography of Jacob Christoph Le Blon. London: British Museum. Accessible at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG35081
Budds, D. (2015). How Pantone became the definitive language of color. Fast Company, September 18, 2105. Accessible at https://www.fastcompany.com/3050240/how-pantone-became-the-definitive-language-of-color
Burgett, S. (2021). Chromolithography: Interview with Frank Romano, Museum of Printing [video]. Accessible at https://youtu.be/7J92N1W7Kb0
Burnet, J. (1843). Practical hints on colour in painting: illustrated by examples from the works of the Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. Archive.org
Carpenter, H. B. (1923). Suggestions for the study of colour. Rochdale: H.B Carpenter. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/b30009339/
Carpenter, H.B. (1933). Color: A manual of its theory and practice. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.
Chevreul, M.E. (1839). De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs. Paris: Chez Pitois-Levrault et cie. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/Delaloiducontra00Chev/
Chevreul, M. E. (1855). The principles of harmony and the contrast of colors and their applications to the arts (English trans. Charles Martel). London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/principlesharmo00martgoog/
Chevreul, M. E. (1857). The laws of contrast of color and their applications to the arts (English trans. J. Spanton). London: G. Routledge and Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/lawscontrastcol01chevgoog/
Chevreul, M. E. (1861). The laws of contrast of color and their applications to the arts (English trans. J. Spanton). London: G. Routledge and Co. [This text features better illustrations] Accessible at https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/
Chevreul, M.E. (1864). Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques. Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils. [Title page lists the author as E. Chevreul with engravings by René Henri Digeon who used the aquatint process with separate plates for yellow, blue, red and black]. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125008481489
Chevreul, M.E. (1864). Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques. Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils. [High resolution images can be downloaded separately to text]. Accessible athttps://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/descouleursetde00chev and https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/05/21/maximum-chroma/
Church, A. H. (1887). Colour: an elementary manual for students. London: Cassell and Company, Limited. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012773236/
Clifford, C. R. (1901). The philosophy of color. New York: Clifford and Lawton. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/philosophyofcolo00clif/
Clifford, C. R. (1907). Color value. New York: Clifford and Lawton. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/colorvalue00clif/
Day, L. F. (1903). Pattern design: a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament. London: B. T. Batsford. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/patterndesignboo00daylrich/
Dresser, C. (1862). The art of decorative design. London: Day and Son. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/albumofnineteent00unse/
Dresser, C. (1873). The principles of decorative design. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dres_0/
Earhart, J.F. (1892). The color printer: a treatise on the use of colors in typographic printing. Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/colorprintertrea00earh/
Field, G. (1817). Chromatics, or the Analogy, Harmony and Philosophy of Colors. David Bogue: London. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012258899/
Field. G. (1835). Chromatography: A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and their Powers in Painting. London: Charles Tilt Publishers. Accessible at archive.org
Field, G. (1850). Rudiments of the painters' art; or, A grammar of coloring, applicable to operative painting, decorative architecture, and the arts. With colored illustrations and practical instructions concerning the modes and materials of painting, etc. London: J. Weale. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743411/
Field, G. (1869). Chromatography : a treatise on colours and pigments and of their powers in painting (New Edition Improved).
Field, G. (1896). A grammar of colouring: Applied to decorative painting and the arts. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125003505399/
Froelich, H.B. & Snow, B. E. (1904). Text books of art education: Book VII. New York: Prang Educational Books. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/textbooksofarted07froe/
Gamm, B. (2020). Thomas A. Lenci and the Eagle Printing Company. Accessible at https://cmykhistory.com/thomas-a-lenci-and-the-eagle-printing-ink-company/
Gamm, B. (2020). Ivan Orloff and his press. Accessible at https://cmykhistory.com/ivan-orloff-and-his-press/
Gardner, F. B. The painters' encyclopædia. New York, M.T. Richardson; 1887 Accessible at https://archive.org/details/paintersencyclop00gard/
Gardner, F. B. (1877). How to paint: A complete compendium of the art. New York, M.T. Richardson; 1887. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/paintersencyclop00gard/
Gartside, M. (1805). An Essay on Light & Shade, Colours & Composition in General (1805), An Essay on a New Theory of Colours & on Composition in General (1808), & Ornamental Groups, Descriptive of Flowers, Birds, Shells, Fruit, Insects, &c., & Illustrative of a New Theory of Colouring (1808)
Goethe, J. W. (1810). Zur Farbenlehre. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. Accessible at https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/zurfarbenlehre00goeta
Grégoire, G. (1820; 4 editions published between 1790 and 1839). Théorie des couleurs, contenant explication de la Table des couleurs. Paris: Chez l'Auteur et Chez Brunot-Labbe. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8561528
Granville, W. C. (1994). The Color Harmony Manual, a Color Atlas based on the Ostwald color system. Color Research and Application, 19 (2), 77-98.
Graves, M. E. (1941). The art of color and design. New York: McGraw-Hill. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/artofcolordesign00grav (1st ed, 1941) and https://archive.org/details/artofcolordesign00grav_0 (2nd ed, 1951)
Guptill, A. L. (1935). Color in sketching and rendering. New York: Reinhold Publishing. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/a.l.guptill1935/
Hammond, E. C. (1912). Industrial drawing for girls: Design principles applied to dress. New York: Redfield Brothers. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/industrialdrawin00hamm/
Hard, A., & Sivik, L. (2001). A theory of colors in combination: A descriptive model related to the NCS color-order system. Color Research and Application, 26(1), 4-28.
Hard, A., Sivik, L. & Tonnquist, G. (1996a). NCS, Natural color system – from concept to research and applications. Part 1. Color Research and Application, 21 (3), 180-205.
Hard, A., Sivik, L. & Tonnquist, G. (1996a). NCS, Natural color system – from concept to research and applications. Part 2. Color Research and Application, 21 (3), 206-220.
Hareux, E. (1900). Le mélange des couleurs enseigné par l'exemple : leçons données sur les fac-similés des oeuvres et des palettes. Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, éditeur. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125009721925/
Hatt, J. A. H. (1908). The colorist, designed to correct the commonly held theory that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors, and to supply the much needed easy method of determining color harmony; together with a system of color nomenclature and other practical information for artists and workers or designers in colors. New York, Van Nostrand. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/coloristdesigned00hatt/
Hay, D. R. (1838). The Laws of harmonious colouring: Adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/lawsofharmonious00hayd/
Hay, D. R. (1845). The principles of beauty in colouring systematized. London: W. Blackwood and Sons. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012651440/
Hayter, C. (1826). A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/newpracticaltrea00hayt/
Hering, E. (1878). Zur lehre vom lichtsinne. English translation (1964) by LM Hurvich and D Jameson. Outlines of a theory of lightsense. Cambridg, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hering, E. (1920). Grundzüge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn (Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense). Berlin: Springer. Accessed June 2, 2023, from https://archive.org/details/grundzgederleh00heriuoft/
Hofstra University (2020). The Herbert Lawrence School of Communication: About Herbert Lawrence. Accessible athttps://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/soc/lherbert.html
Hofstra University (2013). 2013 Hofstra University Gala Honoree - Dr. Lawrence Herbert. Accessible at https://youtu.be/w7PWbqcUlzQ
Hulme, F. E. (1875). Principles of ornamental art. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Accessed April 4, 2023, from https://archive.org/details/principlesoforna00hulm/
Hurst, G. H. A handbook of the theory of colour. London: Scott, Greenwood & Son. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125011579212/
Itten, J. (1961). The art of color. New York: John Wiley.
Itten J. (1963). Design and form: The basic course at the Bauhaus and later (Revised edition, 1975). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Jacobs, M. (1923). The art of colour. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Page & Company. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/artofcolour0000jaco/
Jacobs, M. (1925). The study of color, with lessons and exercises, arranged for instruction of teachers, artists, students and parents. New York: D. Van Nostrand. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/studyofcolorwith00jaco/
Johansson, T. (1937). Färg. Den allmänna färglärans grunder. (Color: The General Coloring Grounds) Stockholm: Natur och Kultur. Accessible at Smithsonian Libraries.
Jones, O. (1856). The Grammar of Ornament. London: Day and Son. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008700086/
Jorgensen, C. J. (1906). The Mastery of Color. A simple and perfect color system, based upon the spectral colors, for educational and practical use in the Arts and Crafts. Published by the Author. Milwaukee, 1906. 8vo., 2 vols., one of text, the other of 22 loose colored plates contained in double box. Accessible at https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/masterycolor00jorg
Klincksieck, P. & Valette, T. (1908). Code des couleurs : à l'usage des naturalistes, artistes, commerçants et industriels : 720 échantillons de couleurs classés d'après la méthode Chevreul simplifiée. Paris: P. Klincksieck. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125005901604/
Kuehni, R.G. (2008), Forgotten pioneers of color order. Part I: Gaspard Grégoire (1751–1846). Color Research and Application, 33 (1), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/col.20362
Kuehni, R. G. & Schwarz, A. (2008). Color ordered: A survey of color order systems from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lacouture, C. (1890). Répertoire chromatique: Solution raisonnée et pratique des problèmes les plus usuels dans l'étude et l'emploi des couleurs. Accessible athttps://archive.org/details/gri_33125012875395/
Lawley, G. (2016). The history of printing – Ban Day dots. Accessible at https://legionofandy.com/category/history-of-printing/
Le Blon, J.C. (1720). Coloritto, or, The harmony of coloring in painting : reduced to mechanical practice, under easy precepts and infallible rules, together with some color'd figures, in order to render the said precepts and rules intelligible not only to painters, but even to all lovers of painting. [London : s.n.]. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/Colorittoharmon00LeBl/
Le Blon image credit: British Museum. Accessible at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG35081
Le Blon image credit: British Museum. Accessible at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG35081
Leidel, H. (1893). Hints on tints and how to mix them: illustrated by one hundred and seventy-five specimens of tints, with an introductory essay on color and colors. New York: H. Leidel. https://archive.org/details/hintsontintshowt00leid/
Leighton, J. & Colling, J. K. (1880). Suggestions in design: being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts. London: Blackie and Son. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/suggestionsindes00leig/page/
Lowengard, S. (2008). The creation of color in eighteenth-century Europe. New York: Columbia University Press. Accessible at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99017.0001.001
Luckiesh, M. (1915). Color and its applications. New York: D. Van Nostrand. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/coloritsapplicat00luck/
Luckiesh, M. (1918). The language of color. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/languageofcolorb00luck_0/
Mabberley, D.J. & San Pío Aladrén, P. (2012). Haenke’s Malaspina colour-chart: An enigma. Madrid: Real Jardın Botanico, Ediciones Doce Calles. Accessible at https://docecalles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Descarga002024.pdf
Maycock, M. M. (1895) A class-book of color: including color definitions, color scaling, and the harmony of colors. Publisher: Milton Bradley, Springfield, Massachusetts Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125008559946/
Mayer, J. T. [Johann Tobiae Mayeri]. (1775). Opera inedita / edidit et observationum appendicem adiecit Georgius Christophorus Lichtenberg. V. 1, Commentationes Societati Regiae Scientiarum oblatas, quae integrae supersunt, cum tabula selenographica complectens. Göttingen: Johann Christian Dieterich. Accessible athttps://www.e-rara.ch/zut/doi/10.3931/e-rara-8854
Mayerne, T. T. (1620-1646). Pictoria Sculptoria et quae subalternarum artium (Painting, Sculpture and of the Lesser Arts). Manuscript in Latin, English, French, Italian, and German with contributions by Edward Norgate, Samuel Cooper, Paul van Somers, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, among others. Fol. No. XIX. Sloan 2052, British Museum, London. Accessible at https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2052
Mérimée. J.F.L. (1830). The art of painting in oil and in fresco: a history of the various processes and materials employed, from its discovery, by Hubert and John Van Eyck, to the present time. Paris: Mme Huzard. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_artofpaintin00c2me/
Mortimer, C. (1731). An Account of Mr. J. C. Le Blon's Principles of Printing, in Imitation of Painting, and of Weaving Tapestry, in the Same Manner as Brocades. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 37 (419), pp101-107. Accessible at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1731.0019
Mylonas, D., & MacDonald, L. (2012). Color naming for color communication. In J. Best (Ed.), Color Design: Theories and Applications, (pp. 254-270). Cambridge, UK: Woodhead Publishing.
Morse, D. D. (1884). Morse's manual of art: a self teacher in all branches of decorative art. Chicago : [D.D. Morse]; 1884. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/morsesmanualofar00mors/
Munsell, A. H. (1915). Atlas of the Munsell color system. Boston: Wadsworth, Howland & Co. Printers. Accessible at https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/atlasmunsellcol00muns/
Munsell, A.H. (1915). Atlas of the Munsell Color System. Boston: Wadsworth, Howland & Co. Printers. Accessible at https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/munsell-atlas
Munsell, A.H. (1921). The Munsell book of color. Cited in Kuehni, R.G. (2002). The early development of the Munsell system. Color Research and Application, 27, 20-27.
Munsell Color (2023). About the Munsell system. Accessible at https://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/
Meyer, F. S. (1900). Handbook of ornament. New York: Bruno Hessling. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfOrnament/
NCS (2022). NCS: Our history. Accessible at https://ncscolor.com/about/our-history/
Nemcsics, A. & Caivano, J.L. (2015). Color Order Systems. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_232-7
Nickelsen, K. (2006) The Challenge of Colour: Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the Hand-Colouring of Illustrations, Annals of Science, 63:1, pp3-23.
Newton, I. (1704). Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. London, Printed for S. Smith, and B. Walford. Accessible at https://www.loc.gov/item/46039060/
Ontario College of Art and Industrial Design (1902). Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design: annual prospectus, 1902-1903. Toronto: Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design; 1902. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/centralontariosc00onta/
Ostwald, W. (1916). Die Farbenfibel. Leipzig: Verlag Unsema GmbH
Ostwald, W. (1917). Die Farbenfibel (The color primer, 1969 English translation of Die Farbenfibel; forward by Faber Birren). New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/colorprimerbasic0000ostw/
Ostwald, W. (1918). Die Farbenlehre (The Color Theory). Leipzig: Verlag Unsema GmbH. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/diefarbenlehre04ostw/
Ostwald, W. (1919). Die Farbschule. Eine Anleitung zur praktischen Erlernung der wissenschaftlichen Farbenlehre (The Color School. A Guide to the Practical Learning of Scientific Color Theory). Leipzig: Verlag Unesma GmbH. Accessible athttps://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/evvdhfi/viewer/jckuiqi
Ostwald, W. (1921). Die Farbenfibel (The color guide). Leipzig: Verlag Unesma GmbH. Accessible athttps://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3f462642b
Ostwald, W. (2023). A broad field. Wilhelm Ostwald Park Museum, Grimma. Accessible athttps://wilhelm-ostwald-park.de/en/research-projects
Packer, T. (1830). The dyer's guide: Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c., with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c., and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool, and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing. London by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/dyersguidebeingc00pack/
Parsons, F. A. (1915). Interior decoration: Its principles and practices. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/interiordecorat00parsgoog/
Parsons, F. A. (1921). The art appeal in display advertising. New York: Harper & Brothers. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/artappealindispl00pars/
Pearce, W. Painting and decorating. London: C. Griffin; 1898. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/paintingdecorat00pear/
Penley, A. (1855). A system of water colour painting: being a complete exposition of the present advanced state of the art, as exhibited in the works of the modern watercolour. London: Winsor and Newton. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/systemofwatercol00pen_0/
Prang, L., Hicks, M. D. & Clark, J. S. (1893). Color instruction: Suggestions for a course of instruction in color for public schools. Boston: Prang Educational Company. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743320
Racinet, A. (1877). Polychromatic ornament. London, H. Sotheran and Co. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/polychromaticor00raci/
Raz, C. (2019). Music of the squares: David Ramsay Hay and the reinvention of Pythagorean aesthetics. Accessible at https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/music-of-the-squares-david-ramsay-hay-and-the-reinvention-of-pythagorean-aesthetics
Richter, M. (1955). The Official German Standard Color Chart. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 45 (3), 223-226.
Richter, M. & Witt, K. (1986). The story of the DIN color system. Color Research and Application, 11 (2), 138-145.
Ridgway, R. A. (1886). Nomenclature of colors for naturalists and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists. Boston: Little Brown & Company. Accessible athttps://archive.org/details/nomenclatureofc00ridg/
Ridgway, R. (1912). Color standardsand color nomenclature. Washington, DC: Robert Ridgway.
Rood, O. N. (1879). Modern chromatics with applications to art and industry. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/modernchromatics00rood/
Ross, D. W. (1907). A theory of pure design; harmony, balance, rhythm. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin https://archive.org/details/theoryofpuredesi00rossuoft/
Ross, D. W. (1919). The painter's palette; a theory of tone relations, an instrument of expression. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. https://archive.org/details/painterspalettet00rossrich/
Runge, P. O. (1810). Farben-Kugel; oder, Construction des Verhältnisses aller Mischungen der Farben zu einander, und ihrer vollständigen Affinität, mit angehängtem Versuch einer Ableitung der Harmonie in den Zusammenstellungen der Farben. Nebst einer Abhandlung über die Bedeutung der Farben in der Natur, von Heinrik Steffens. Hamburg, bey F. Perthes. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/farbenkugeloderc00rung/https://ia800906.us.archive.org/1/items/farbenkugeloderc00rung/farbenkugeloderc00rung.pdf
Schäffer, J. C. (1769). Entwurf einer allgemeinen Farbenverein oder Versuch und Muster einer gemeinnutzlichen Bestimmung und Benennung der Farben. Regensburg: Gedruckt bey Emanuel Adam Weiss. Accessible at https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/publication/877/edition/2772 and http://www.gutenberg-e.org/lowengard/C_Chap06.html
Schawelka, K. (2018). Wilhelm Ostwald’s “Harmony of Colours“ (1918) and its mixed reception – A reassessment. Óbuda University e-Bulletin, 8 (2), pp13-24. Accessible at https://uni-obuda.hu/e-bulletin/Schawelka_13.pdf
Schiffermüller, I. (1772). Versuch eines Farbensystems. Wien: Verlegts Augustin Bernardi, Buchhändler. Accessible at https://archive.org/details/versucheinesfarb00schi/
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Werner – A beautiful pocket-size facsimile published by Smithsonian Books is available online https://smithsonianbooks.com/store/science-nature/werners-nomenclature-of-colors-adapted-to-zoology-botany-chemistry-mineralogy-anatomy-and-the-arts/
Werner’s original text plus a poster has been meticulously re-created by Chicago-based designer and data artist Nicholas Rougeux. See also Instagram @nicholasrougex and Twitter @rougex https://www.c82.net/werner/
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About the author - Dr Zena O’Connor established Design Research Associates in 2006 and has focussed on evidence-based color strategies, insight, and recommendations for applied design and the built environment. Zena has completed numerous color design projects across commercial, residential and the healthcare and aged care sectors. A designer by training, Zena’s PhD research (Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney) investigated color in the built environment. She has developed and taught courses at university (Sydney University and the University of NSW) and published 70+ peer-reviewed academic articles on color in applied design and the built environment. zenaoconnor.com