Fine and graphic arts products for enabling amateurs and others to select and utilize color materials with optical results of increased predictability

Claim 2

A kit for use in the fine and graphic arts, said kit comprising: a. an organized array of color media of predetermined hue, value, and chroma, symbolized by the notation H V/C; b. said hue, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the position of a color sensation in the spectrum, the hue of any indicating its relation to the 10 major hue terms, viz red, yellow, green, blue, purple, yellow-red, green-yellow, blue-green, purple-blue and red-purple; c. said value, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the reflectance luminosity of a color in comparison with a measured standard in the form of a neutral gray scale, designated by N, extending from a theoretically pure black symbolized by V 0 to a theoretically pure white symbolized by V 10; d. said chroma referring to the purity of a color in the sense of degree of departure from neutral gray toward the most intense color sensation of a particular hue, the scales of chroma extending from C 0 for a neutral gray out to C 14 or farther for the pure color; e. selected groupings of selected coloR media being isolated from other groupings of color media, each of said color media in any such selected grouping being characterized by the same value as so quantitatively defined; f. and visual partitioning means isolating said selected grouping from said other groupings; g. said media being in the form of fluid colorants; h. said visual partitioning means including holding means for removably positioning said media at predetermined locations within said kit. i. said groupings each consisting of four media respectively having only the hues of yellow, blue-purple, red and green; j. said array including between four and eight of said groupings, each of said groupings having a different value.

Claim 3

A kit for use in the fine and graphic arts, said kit comprising: a. an organized array of color media of predetermined hue, value, and chroma, symbolized by the notation H V/C; b. said hue, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the position of a color sensation in the spectrum, the hue of any indicating its relation to the ten major hue terms, viz red, yellow, green, blue, purple, yellow-red, green-yellow, blue-green, purple-blue and red-purple; c. said value, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the reflectance luminosity of a color in comparison with a measured standard in the form of a neutral gray scale, designated by N, extending from a theoretically pure black symbolized by V 0 to a theoretically pure white symbolized by V 10; d. said chroma referring to the purity of a color in the sense of degree of departure from neutral gray toward the most intense color sensation of a particular hue, the scales of chroma extending from C 0 for a neutral gray out to C 14 or farther for the pure color; e. selected groupings of selected color media being isolated from other groupings of color media, each of said color media in any such selected grouping being characterized by the same value as so quantitatively defined; f. and visual partitioning means isolating said selected grouping from said other groupings; g. said media being in the form of fluid colorants; h. said visual partitioning means including holding means for removably positioning said media at predetermined locations within said kit. i. said groupings each including four media, respectively designated by hue terms including yellow, blue-purple, red and green; j. said array including between four and eight of said groupings, each of said groupings having a different value.

Claim 4

A kit for use in the fine and graphic arts, said kit comprising: a. an organized array of color media of predetermined hue, value, and chroma, symbolized by the notation H V/C; b. said hue, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the position of a color sensation in the spectrum, the hue of any indicating its relation to the ten major hue terms, viz red, yellow, green, blue, purple, yellow-red, green-yellow, blue-green, purple-blue and red-purple; c. said value, as quantitatively defined in accordance with the Munsell Color System, referring to the reflectance luminosity of a color in comparison with a measured standard in the form of a neutral gray scale, designated by N, extending from a theoretically pure black symbolized by V 0 to a theoretically pure white symbolized by V 10; d. said chroma referring to the purity of a color in the sense of degree of departure from neutral gray toward the most intense color sensation of a particular hue, the scales of chroma extending from C 0 for a neutral gray out to C 14 or farther for the pure color; e. selected groupings of selected color media being isolated from other groupings of color media, each of said color media in any such selected grouping being characterized by the same value as so quantitatively defined; f. and visual partitioning means isolating said selected grouping from said other groupings; g. said media being in the form of fluid colorants; h. said visual partitioning means including holding means for removably positioning said media at predetermined locations within said kit. i. said groupings each including four media, respectively designated by hue terms including yellow, blue-purple, red and green; j. said array including between four and eight of said groupings, each of said groupings having a different value.