History of The Color Wheel

Friday, May 30, 2008


Early color wheel, 1708
© C.B. (presumably Claude Boutet)

Pulling from Sarah Lowengard’s text, The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe, the COLOURlovers blog put together a great article on the history of the color wheel. The article looks at the progression of color organization systems and how the wheel came to be, featuring a some great color organization examples along the way.

Read it here.


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