ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names

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Grâce à la standardisation ISCC-NBS, les chercheurs du NBS ont étudié les noms de couleurs utilisés au sein d'un certain nombre de nuanciers, et ont rapproché ces noms des centroïdes ISCC-NBS. En a résulté une table de 5411 noms que vous trouverez ci-dessous. Vous noterez que pour certains noms existent un grand nombre de centroïdes correspondants.

David Mundie est à l'origine de ce tableau. Je l'ai rapproché de la table des centroïdes corrigée par John C. Foster pour obtenir une version plus exacte des couleurs RVB associées. Il y a très probablement un certain nombre d'erreurs (couleurs ou noms), mais à défaut du tableau original, il m'est impossible de les corriger... Si une couleur semble éloignée du nom associé, il se peut aussi qu'il en était de même dans le nuancier d'origine.

Le numéro qui s'affiche au survol des échantillons de couleur correspond au centroïde associé.

The color order was mixed and contained duplicates. John Foster returned the color dictionary sources in these tables below, and the reason for the multiple numbered color sequences is now clear. He also found two color dictionary pages in the M-N section that were missing in the Mundie list.

Partial color names in brackets is a shorthand for two color names with the same characteristics used interchangeably:
bordeaux 15
bordeaux red 15
is in the dictionary as
bordeaux [red] 15

Entries for the same dictionary color from different sources will be combined here only if the color set is the same:
bois de rose(M) 19
bois de rose(TC) 19
results in
bois de rose(M,TC) 19

The Mundie entry was
bittersweet orange 51 35 50 37

bittersweet orange(M) 51
bittersweet orange(P) 35 50
bittersweet orange(R) 37
will remain here as three entries.

Differences from the Mundie list will be presented with "+" and "-". Names removed are in parenthesis for clarity. This is not used for merely adding sources and split lists if the colors are the same.

Boigainillea is replaced by bougainvillea:
bougainvillea(P) + (bougainillea -) 254

Dictionary color 171 was not in the Mundie list:
bright aqua(T) 159 163 171+ 172

Add complete entry and colors:
moss rose(M) + 3+ 6+

Replace 1067 with 106:
bright olive green 1067- 106+ 107 120 125

Gray and grey are the same color, but occasionally different in the dictionary as part of another name.

Code Letter from Dictionary of Color Names (published 1955-1976) Source colors are assigned one of 267 centroids in the dictionary.	Source	Field
M	Maerz and Paul, Dictionary of Color, 1st ed. (1930), 2nd ed. (1950) added Standard Color Cards for 1941 and colors from Home and Garden magazine	general
P	Plochere Color System	interior decorating
R	Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912)	biology, botany
T	Taylor, Knoche & Granville, Descriptive Color Names Dictionary	mass market
TC	Textile Color Card Association [TCCA] (name changed to The Color Association of the United States [CAUS] December 1955), Standard Color Card of America and U.S. Army Color Card (Standard Color Reference of America, 1st edition May 1915, 10th edition by 2003)	textile sales promotion
A	American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists and Society of Dyers and Colourists	dyes
B	Colour Terms in Biology, H.A. Dade	biology
F	Federal Specification TT-C-595, Colors; (for) Ready-Mixed Paints, see FS-595B (1994) The number listed is the second through fifth digits. The first digit (not listed here) indicates luster: 1=gloss, 2=satin, 3=matte	paint
H	Horticultural Colour Charts, R. F. Wilson	horticulture
MUP	Commercial Standard CS147-47, Colors for Molded Urea Plastics	plastics
PSP	Commercial Standard CS156-49, Colors for Polystyrene Plastics	plastics
RC	National Research Council, Rock-Color Chart	rock colors
S	Postage-Stamp Color Names, William H. Beck	philately
SC	U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Charts	soil colors
G	House and Garden magazine, in Supplementary Index of Color names (Dictionary of Color, 2nd edition, 1950)

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Code	Branch of U.S. Government using the color name
Agr	Department of Agriculture
AN	Army-Navy (See Army-Navy Aircraft Standard Colors and Army-Navy Aircraft Camouflage Standard Colors)
BuOrd	Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department
CAA	Civil Aeronautics Administration, Department of Commerce
Eng	U.S. Engineers, U.S. Army
FS	Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
MC	U.S. Marine Corps, Navy Department
MA	Maritime Administration, Department of Commerce
N	Navy Department
PC	The Panama Canal
PO	Post Office Department
PBS	Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration
PR	Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce
QM	Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army
SCS	Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture
TC	Transportation Corps, U.S. Army
USA	U.S. Army (See Supplement to U.S. Army Specification, 3-1, 1943; also U.S. Army Color Card published by the Textile Color Card Association)
Y&D	Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department

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Code Letter from Dictionary of Color Names (published 1955-1976) Source colors are assigned one of 267 centroids in the dictionary.	Retsof Mother of all Color Charts code mapped to 267 colors	Retsof Mother of all Color Charts code from Maerz and Paul color plate	Source	Field
M	CM-MP		Maerz and Paul, Dictionary of Color, 1st ed. (1930), 2nd ed. (1950) added Standard Color Cards for 1941 and colors from Home and Garden magazine	general
		MPA	source (A) in Maerz and Paul	animal dye
		MPB	source (B) in Maerz and Paul	British ready-mixed Paint
		MPC	source (C) in Maerz and Paul	ceramics
		MPF	source (F) in Maerz and Paul	Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary
		MPG	source (G) in Maerz and Paul, 2nd ed.	House and Garden Magazine
		MPM	source (M) in Maerz and Paul	American ready-mixed paint
		MPO	source (O) in Maerz and Paul	Oberthür & Dauthenay's "Repertoire de Coleurs," (1905)
		MPP	source (P) in Maerz and Paul	pgiment used by artists and structural painters
		MPT	source (T) in Maerz and Paul	textile industry
		MPV	source (V) in Maerz and Paul	vegetable dye
P	CM-PLO		Plochere Color System	interior decorating
R	CM-RI	MP-RI	source (R) in Maerz and Paul; Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912)	biology, botany
		MPO-RI	source (R 1905) in Maerz and Paul; Oberthür color adopted by Ridgway
T	CM-TKC		Taylor, Knoche & Granville, Descriptive Color Names Dictionary	mass market
TC	CM-TC		Textile Color Card Association [TCCA] (name changed to The Color Association of the United States [CAUS] December 1955), Standard Color Card of America and U.S. Army Color Card (Standard Color Reference of America, 1st edition May 1915, 10th edition by 2003)	textile sales promotion
A	CM-A		American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists and Society of Dyers and Colourists	dyes
B	CM-BIO		Colour Terminology in Biology, H.A. Dade	biology
F	CM-FS		Federal Specification TT-C-595, Colors; (for) Ready-Mixed Paints, see FS-595B (1994)	paint
H	CM-HO		Horticultural Colour Charts, R. F. Wilson	horticulture
MUP	CM-MUP		Commercial Standard CS147-47, Colors for Molded Urea Plastics	plastics
PSP	CM-PSP		Commercial Standard CS156-49, Colors for Polystyrene Plastics	plastics
RC	CM-NRC		National Research Council, Rock-Color Chart	rock colors
S	CM-SB		Postage-Stamp Color Names, William H. Beck	philately
SC	CM-SC		U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Charts	soil colors

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