Draft:Smith Colour System
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In colorimetry, the Smith Color System is an ordering system that identifies colors based on assigning a combination of three distinct words to represent the three properties for color: hue (basic color), chroma (color intensity) and value (lightness or darkness). The Smith Color System was created by Matt Smith in 2023 and later adopted by the mobile application 'incolor' as part of the application's core offering as a discovery tool for color.
Several earlier color order systems had placed colors into a three-dimensional color solid form or another including: Munsell, CIELAB, and CIECAM02. It was Munsell particularly that influenced the Smith Color System due to Munsell's basis in organizing human perception with a robust scientific experimental standing.
However, Smith was dissatisfied with the unrealized potential of applied language in colorimetry and was the first to assign consistent language representation to hue, chroma and value as a codified standard; and Smith's major accomplishment was being the first to illustrate that unique colors bridge physical and digital domains with high efficacy through color-response codes. As Smith explains:
There are too few color words and an abundance of distorted statements of color relations; and it becomes evident, when appropriate measurement of colors is considered, that no regular contour or single word indentifier will serve the potential use cases for color adequately.
Naming a color[edit]
A color is fully specified by listing the three words for hue, value, and chroma in that order. For instance, a pink of medium lightness and fairly saturated could be 'candy . fair . sweet' with the three words uniquely bound to this color. The word for hue in this case would be 'candy' and would have adopt a position to be searchable in a single database for all color names.