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COLOR NOTATION
An image should appear at this position in the text.Color Score-(or No 6 IN PLATED III)-Giving Areas by H, V and C. they may be subdivided much finer, if desired, by use of the decimal point. It is a question of convenience whether to make a small score with only the large divisions, or a much larger score with a hundred times as many steps. In the latter case each hue has ten steps, the middle step of green being distinguished as 5G55 to suggest the four steps 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, which precede it, and 6G, 7G, 8G, and 9G, which follow it toward blue-green.
The score preserves color records in a convenient shape.
Such a color score, or notation diagram, to be made. small or large as the case demands, offers a very convenient means for An image should appear at this position in the text.Fig. 24. recording color combinations, when pigments are not at hand.
(141) To display its three dimensions, a little model can be made with three visiting cards, so placed as to present their mutual intersection at right angles (Fig. 24).
5G55 is their centre of mutual balance. A central plane separates all colors into two contrasted fields. To the right are all warm colors, to the left are all cool colors. Each of these
