Hints on tints and how to mix them : illustrated by one hundred and seventy-five specimens of tints : with an introductory essay on color and colors
Hints on Tints and How to Mix Them is a painter's reference of colour specimens compiled by Henry Leidel and published in New York in 1893 for practising painters and decorators. Its numbered swatch plates arrange tints into families of greys, drabs, pinks, reds, greens and blues, each labelled with a trade name such as Mouse Drab, Sage Green or Bremen Blue Green. A designer could use the plates as a historical palette, pairing muted drabs and greys with saturated jewel greens and blues for period-accurate or restrained colour schemes.
