A Study Of The Impacts Of Design Background And Gender Factor On The Use Of Color Tone Modifiers And The Scattergram In Munsell Color Space

• Main Authors: Chic-Chi Chang, 張志傑
• Other Authors: Taso-Huang Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12554856603130787610

碩士 === 大同大學 === 工業設計研究所 === 90 === Abstract People modify the limited number of hues with hue modifiers (tone), which are located in different places in the color space. The ISCC-NBS Centroid Color Charts of the USA have clearly divided the range of the twelve chromatic color tone modifiers. Through research, Lü discovered the six common chromatic color tone modifiers used by people in Taiwan. Further research indicated that the location color space of these six modifiers is different from that of the ISCC-NBS Color name charts. In their paper on the differences in color naming between the Chinese and British, Lin et al noticed that culture is the source of the differences between color names and color tone modifiers. Though Lü and Lin discovered some color tones people often use to describe hues, it is interesting to find out whether some tones not discussed by Lü and Lin have been widely used in conversations to describe some specific colors. This paper thus investigated the common color names in the natural language of the Taiwan area through experiments performed on an equal number of male and female respondents divided into two groups: respondents with a design background and respondents without a design background. Common hues and tones were selected for the color tone and color space matching experiment to find out the corresponding Munsell color space location of the color tones chosen by the respondents. Finally, after inference and statistical evaluation, the corresponding location of all color tones and individual groups of color tones in the boundaries and centroid of Munsell hue were determined, in order to obtain the range of common color tones used in conversation among people in Taiwan. Results indicate that amongst the common color tones used in conversions of people in Taiwan, DAN（淡）, GIAN（淺） and FEN（粉） are difficult to distinguish; as are XIAN（鮮） and LIANG（亮）. The distribution of the range of achromatic tones YOU（黝） and WU（烏） is similar. From the viewpoint of the background, the respondents with a design background give more color names than do the respondents without a design background; and the range of color tones chosen by this group is generally smaller in the Munsell color space; though the difference in centroid colors between both groups is small. From the viewpoint of gender, female respondents give more color names than do male respondents, though the difference in color tone range is small and centroid color location is insignificant between both genders. In sum, this paper gives concrete results relating to color tone utilization by males and females and by people with and without design backgrounds in Taiwan, as well as the distribution of these color tones in the Munsell color space.