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A NOMENCLATURE OE COLORS. 



fixity of the nomenclature is even more necessary than 

 its simplification. 1 



As is stated on page 23, had we pigments representing 

 the three primary colors in their absolute purity, it would 

 be a simple matter to produce all possible modifications 

 of color by their combination with one another, together 

 with the addition of black or white, when required. Even 

 with the imperfect pigments now available, by far the 

 larger number can be made (see pages 29-32). 



According to Von Bezold, the term "hue" is synony- 

 mous with color; a "tint" denotes a color or hue modi- 

 fied by admixture of white; while a "shade" implies a 

 color darkened with black. The same author classifies 

 colors as follows : — 



I. Gold, silver, black, and white. 



II. Full colors, or those of the solar spectrum (that is, blue, green, 

 and red, — or, as some authorities have it, and especially 

 as popularly supposed, blue, yellow, and red). 

 III. a. Baric colors, or those shaded with black. Such may be 

 properly termed " shades " of blue, green, red, etc. 



b. Light colors (diluted or mixed with white) and pale 



colors (which are still further lightened or diluted). 



c. Broken colors, by which is meant "those colors which 



reach the eye mixed with faint white, that is to say, 

 gray light, but in which the specific character of their 

 hue is still expressed with tolerable decision. If the 

 gray predominates to such an extent that we receive 

 only a very slight sensation of color, we speak of a 

 gray with the addition of the name of a color, such as 

 greenish gray, bluish gray, etc." (pages 97, 98). 



1 The author is under obligations to the Nonotuck Silk Company, 

 of Florence, Mass., for sample-books of their Corticelli embroidery 

 silks, which at his request were most courteously and gratuitously 

 supplied. 



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