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Re:Five minute guide to better typography by theoh on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:19PM (#15426543)
Credit for color science goes to the scientists, credit for artistic effects using color goes to the artists. There's plenty to go around.

Jan Koenderink's book on color measurement looks good.

Re:Five minute guide to better typography by npgatech on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:57PM (#15426645)
The problem isn't that he used color to make interesting new art. I think he explored new areas of color which were not known before - and I applaud his artistic efforts.

However, Josef Albers went beyond his art to make false claims about color theory, how the human brain perceives color and made broad generalizations - based on anecdotal evidence and intuition. He went unchallenged for the most part. See the criticism linked in my original post.

I just checked the book "Color for the Sciences" that you had mentioned. I think I am going to purchase this one! Thanks.

Re:Five minute guide to better typography by jacobolus on Sunday October 08, 2017 @05:44AM (#15427593)
I recommend Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models.
Re:Five minute guide to better typography by npgatech on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:34PM (#15428819)
Thanks. This looks extremely interesting.