f-featherbrain: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Schäffer’s color charts described and ordered both unmixed and mixed colors together. Here, bands one through eight correspond to the unmixed colors shown on the shield. He instructs the reader how to fill the remaining bands with mixtures of two or three colors.

f-featherbrain:

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth

Schäffer’s color charts described and ordered both unmixed and mixed colors together. Here, bands one through eight correspond to the unmixed colors shown on the shield. He instructs the reader how to fill the remaining bands with mixtures of two or three colors.

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