Color science explained

Color science is the scientific study of color including lighting and optics; measurement of light and color; the physiology, psychophysics, and modeling of color vision; and color reproduction. It is the modern extension of traditional color theory.

Organizations

• International Commission on Illumination (CIE)
• Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
• Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
• Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
• International Colour Association (AIC)
• Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA)
• The Colour Group
• Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC)
• American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC)
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
• Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM)

Journals

The preeminent scholarly journal publishing research papers in color science is Color Research and Application,^[1] started in 1975 by founding editor-in-chief Fred Billmeyer, along with Gunter Wyszecki, Michael Pointer and Rolf Kuehni, as a successor to the Journal of Colour (1964–1974). Previously most color science work had been split between journals with broader or partially overlapping focus such as the Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA), Photographic Science and Engineering (1957–1984), and the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (renamed Coloration Technology in 2001).

Other journals where color science papers are published include the Journal of Imaging Science & Technology, the Journal of Perceptual Imaging, the Journal of the International Colour Association (JAIC), the Journal of the Color Science Association of Japan, Applied Optics, and the Journal of Vision.

Conferences

• Congress of the International Color Association
• IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (CIC)
• SIGGRAPH
• International Symposium for Color Science and Art

Selected books

• Book: Berns, Roy S. . Roy S. Berns

. Roy S. Berns . Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology . 4th . 2019 . Wiley . 10.1002/9781119367314 . 3rd ed. (2000).

• Book: Daw, Nigel . Nigel Daw

. Nigel Daw . How Vision Works: The Physiological Mechanisms Behind What We See . 2012 . Oxford . 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751617.001.0001.

• Book: Elliot . Andrew J. . Andrew J. Elliot . Fairchild . Mark D. . Franklin . Anna . 2015 . Handbook of Color Psychology . Cambridge . 10.1017/CBO9781107337930 .
• Book: Fairchild, Mark D. . Mark D. Fairchild

. Mark D. Fairchild . Color Appearance Models . 3rd . Wiley . 2013 . 10.1002/9781118653128 . Author's website. 2nd ed. (2005).

• Book: Hunt, Robert W. G. . Robert William Gainer Hunt

. Robert William Gainer Hunt . The Reproduction of Colour . Wiley . 2004 . 6th . 10.1002/0470024275 . limited .

• Book: Kuehni, Rolf G. . Rolf G. Kuehni

. Rolf G. Kuehni . Color: An Introduction to Practice and Principles . 3rd . Wiley . 2012 . 10.1002/9781118533567. 1st ed. (1997).

• Book: Luo . Ming R. . Ming Ronnier Luo . Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology . Springer . 2016 . 10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7 .
• Book: MacAdam . David L. . David MacAdam . Sources of Color Science . MIT Press . 1970 . limited .
• Book: Reinhard . Erik . Khan . Erum Arif . Akyuz . Ahmet Oguz . Johnson . Garrett . Color Imaging: Fundamentals and Applications . 2008 . CRC Press . 10.1201/b10637 .
• Book: Schanda . János . János Schanda . Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System . 2007 . Wiley . 10.1002/9780470175637 . limited .
• Book: Shamey . Renzo . Renzo Shamey . Kuehni . Rolf G. . Pioneers of Color Science . Springer . 2020 . 10.1007/978-3-319-30811-1 .
• Book: Wyszecki . Günter . Günter Wyszecki . Stiles . Walter S. . Walter Stanley Stiles . Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae . 2nd . Wiley . 1982 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Color Research and Application . 30 Aug 2023.