This book offers detailed coverage of color, colorants, the coloring of materials, and reproducing the color of materials through imaging. It combines the clarity and ease of earlier editions with significant updates about the advancement in color theory and technology.

• Provides guidance for how to use color measurement instrumentation, make a visual assessment, set a visual tolerance, and select a formulation
• Supplements material with numerical examples, graphs, and illustrations that clarify and explain complex subjects
• Expands coverage of topics including spatial vision, solid-state lighting, cameras and spectrophotometers, and translucent materials

ROY S. BERNS, PHD, is the Richard S. Hunter Professor in Color Science, Appearance, and Technology within the Program of Color Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA where he developed both M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs in Color Science. He has received scientific achievement awards from the Inter-Society Color Council, the Society of Imaging Science and Technology, the Colour Group of Great Britain, and the International Association of Colour. Dr. Berns is the author of the third edition of this book, as well as an author of over 200 publications.