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  A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan

  

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  Human beings got along perfectly well for hundreds of millennia without standardized taxonomies of color, but they didn’t do so in a globally connected culture full of logos, brands, and 24/7 screens. It’s arguable whether the world as we now see it would have been possible without monopolistic color systems like Pantone. They may circumscribe […]

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  Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686)

  

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