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Color and its application to printing

Andrews, E. C. (Emory Cobb), 1878-1932 · 1911 · Chicago. Inland Printer · 10 pictures

Color and its application to printing is a 1911 Chicago trade manual by E. C. Andrews, published by the Inland Printer for working printers and designers. Its pictures are plain line diagrams and tonal swatches: a prism and light-ray diagram on black, a polar colour wheel with a scaled ring of numbered segments, and grey value strips labelled 10 to 90. A designer could take from them the logic of systematic colour charting and the stepped value scale as a model for organising palettes.

Color printing

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