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A Beginner’s Guide to (CIE) Colorimetry | by Chandler Abraham | Color and Imaging | Medium

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Edit 2017: This was the first thing I ever wrote about color. I’m older and wiser and I wanted to issue a few disclaimers. Understanding the foundation of CIE colorimetry is very practical but here are some things to remember. by @cba Feedback welcome: cbabraham@gmail.com This blog post is an introduction to the CIE 1931 color system, an international standard model of human color vision that is used all around you. Do you see any color prints around you? Are you reading this on a color display? All of that is made possible by CIE 1931. Commission internationale de l’éclairage (CIE) is a 100 year old organization that creates international standards related to light and color. CIE 1931 is a Color Matching System. Color matching does not attempt to describe how colors appear to humans, color matching tells us how to numerically specify a measured color, and then later accurately reproduce that measured color (e.g. in print or digital displays). To reiterate that point, Color Matching Sy

A Beginner’s Guide to (CIE) Colorimetry Chandler Abraham 18 min read · Sep 10, 2016 -- 24 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Edit 2017: This was the first thing I ever wrote about color. I’m older and wiser and I wanted to issue a few disclaimers. Understanding the foundation of CIE colorimetry is very practical but here are some things to remember. CIE colorimetry isn’t even half the story of color science, it’s a tiny piece of the huge puzzle of human perception and engineering that is color science. Don’t confuse understanding it with understanding color perception

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