The Munsell Color System: How We Learned to Measure Dirt by Eye — Dirt Factory

The Munsell Color System: How We Learned to Measure Dirt by Eye — Dirt Factory

Color has always been a slippery thing, prone to argument and misunderstanding. One person might call a patch of soil “reddish brown,” another might insist it looks more like “rust,” and a third might smile and call it “chocolatey,” each description telling a slightly different story, none of them rigorous enough to carry across a hundred miles of changing landscape. At the turn of the twentieth century, a painter and educator from Massachusetts…