What is the Value Scale and who developed it?
Value is a measure of the graduation of color from light to dark. Professor Albert Henry Munsell 1858–1918 was an American painter and a teacher of art. He was also the inventor of the Mussell color system. As a painter, he was known for his seascapes and portraits. Munsell developed a system for numerically describing colors using a scale he named the Value Scale. The artist wrote two books on this subject, one of the books was called A Color Notation and was written in 1905 and also Atlas of the Munsell Color System in 1915. He created a system to measure color that is still used universally. To help the artist see value Munsell assigned a number to ten incriments of gray from dark to light and called it the Value Scale. Munsell divided his scale is divided into 10 equal measurements with a 10% difference between each of the values on the scale. The color gray is used to make this scale because it has no hue and therefore it is easier to judge the value of any color next to and again
