New World of Color —Sherburne

The colors are arrang-ed in a chromatic-like organization around 165 full-strength colors and the color families derived from them. It uses a three-part numbering system that reflects the color family, the page location within that family, and the placement of the color on the page.

Brown explains, “Imagine a pie with 165 slices, with slices 1 through 5 reflecting yellow; 1 represents bright yellow and 5 represents reddish yellow. So color 1-1-1 would be the lightest yellow, and 5-1-7 is the reddest yellow before we move to the orange color family. By the first digit, you know where your color is coming from on the color wheel, and the other numbers indicate the location of the color within the associated color family.”