A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux Decorate

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours

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A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

Decorate your walls with creative data visualizations designed to highlight the beautiful colors used in the original guidebook.

These colors are scans of the original swatches Syme painted in the 18th century extracted from the scanned copy on the Internet Archive. While the original colors have aged, they have been preserved here as in the original in an effort to faithfully reproduce the guide. Punctuation and capitalization can be unusual in places because it is the same as in the original.

Snow White, is the characteristic colour of the whites; it is the purest white colour; being free of all intermixture, it resembles new-fallen snow. W.

The colors in these photos are approximate and are intended to serve as examples of where to find the colors described in nature. Contribute your photo »

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