271 years before Pantone, an artist mixed and described every color imaginable in an 800-page book.
Pantone, A. Boogert, colors: Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau”
Posted on: May 20, 2014
Pantone, A. Boogert, colors: Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau”
Zolton posted in New Art this May 7,2014
Created in 1692, this book by unheralded artist A. Boogert featured beautiful watercolours and theories around how best to mix them.
As our friends at This Is Colossal have noted, the 800 page book, entitled Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, ‘was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and colour of its time’.
More significantly, it was really a tease for the subsequent release of the influential modern version, The Pantone Color Guide, which was published … wait for it … 271 years later.
Via This Is Colossal
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