Color chart

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Gretag–Macbeth ColorChecker color chart

In color-related fields, a color chart is a physical arrangement of standardized color samples, used for color comparisons and measurements such as in checking the color reproduction of an imaging system such as a camera.

Color charts of many different types are also used in different fields; their use of colors is sometimes a code for something else, rather than as a representation of colors

A well-known and commonly used color chart is the Munsell ColorChecker,^[1] previous called the Gretag–Macbeth ColorChecker and still widely known by that name, a cardboard-framed arrangement of twenty-four squares of painted samples based on Munsell colors. It's maker Munsell Labs and parent Gretag–Macbeth were acquired in 2006 by X-Rite, a color management and colorimetry company.

The skin color chart of Felix von Luschan

Other color charts include the Perfect-Pixs Color Patches Card,^[2] the Kodak Q-13 and Q-14 Color Control Patches,^[3] and the IT8 target made by several companies including Kodak, Coloraid.de,^[4] and FujiFilm.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ ColorChecker Chart. X-Rite.
2. ^ Perfect Pixs helps digital photographers produce more accurate colors. ePHOTOzine.
3. ^ Kodak Color Control Patches. Robin Myers Imaging.
4. ^ IT 8.7 Scanner Calibration Targets. Coloraid.de.
5. ^ Ian Lyons. IT8 Calibration Targets: Does cost really make a difference?. Computer Darkroom.

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