Colour charts for use in taxonomic descriptions of plants and animals were published from the last years of the seventeenth century.
The page above is one of thirteen in a wonderful little volume, whose second edition appeared in 1821 – Patrick Syme’s revision of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours. A copy of this work was carried by the naturalist Charles Darwin on his voyage in the Beagle. In January 1833, he recorded his first sighting in a small field notebook:
The rest of this essay has been removed after six years. You can now read more about this in The Anatomy of Colour, published by Thames & Hudson and available from John Sandoe (Books).
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I write and photograph on many subjects including listed buildings such as Eton College, the 1992 fire at Windsor Castle, the Lovell Telescope and more.
My question – is there such thing as a pointing pen device/mouse software that I can use on a photograph or logo to give me the Pantone colour number that I can then use to make hard copy prints – perhaps even on my business cards. So is there an Eton blue or Windsor fire orange of Google ‘g’ ?
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I believe that there are several ‘Colour Pickers’ on the Internet. I don’t know whether Pantone produce one. Pantone is a rather crude way of ‘matching’ colours, but it’s often the nearest that one can get on a monitor.