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It is estimated that an experienced person with normal color vision can distinguish about 10 million different surface colors under optimum viewing conditions and that in commerce about half a million different colors are recognized [Ref. 1.18, p. 388]. These facts show the need for a precise numerical system for color specification, such as CIE(x, y, Y). In many instances, however, great precision is not necessary and several hundred color names will suffice. For such purposes, in the United States an official list of 267 standardized color names that apply to the colors of nonluminous materials was presented jointly by the Inter-Society Color Council and the National Bureau of Standards (ISCC-NBS) [7.2].
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ISCC-NBS Centroid Color Charts. Standard Sample No. 2016. (Office of Standard Reference Materials, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 1965)
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Agoston, G.A. (1987). Color Names and Notations and Their Levels of Precision. In: Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34734-7_10
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