What Japan Did With Munsell That the West Didn't

PCCS (Practical Color Co-ordinate System) is a stand-out example of a non-Western color theory system. Developed by the Japan Color Research Institute in 1964, PCCS builds on the Munsell color solid, and adds something new: a named system of "tones" that lets designers navigate color combinations by feel. In this episode I also cover Shigenobu Kobayashi's Color Image Scale (developed independently just two years later), and ask why two Japanese researchers working at the same time arrived at the same solution. This is episode 17 of Color Wheel Wednesday! New episode every week. Keep the suggestions coming :) #colortheory #colorwheel #japan