Pantone Munsell Book of Color - Glossy Edition | Portable Guide to Identify and Communicate Color Anywhere | M40115B

Let's be honest-- it is a bit expensive, but as someone doing color research and working with Munsell colors, this is a must and I am happy I could finally buy it!! Looking forward to doing more color research using these color samples.

I got this book after taking a course on colour mixing and find it essentialto aid me in mixing the right colour. The chips can be painted until I geta perfect match, and this enables me to make the same colour againand again. Very helpful when I want to make tubes of a colour, or torepeat one I like.

R, YR, G, BG, B, PB, P, and PR are perfect, but there are hue shift problems with all Y and GY with mid-value/mid-chroma swatches. That is very annoying; especially for something this expensive. I can see the importance of making the investment if you are manufacturing car doors in different parts of the world and want them to match, but for "rational painting" the price tag is beyond excessive. I purchased Paul Centore's $75 version of the Munsell tree to compare (I am using both for my graduate dissertation on arts and technology), and I have to say that, if you are a painter, Centore's book is an excellent affordable choice to create color strings for painting, which is part of the audience for X-Rite's book, because all you really want as a painter is something to control hue, value, and chroma (color relations), and not necessarily specify color (color absolutes). If you are a painter and feel left-out because you cannot afford the fancy X-Rite version. Don't. You will be okay with Centore's book. I promise.

This is the definitive set of colors used for a wide variey of professional endeavors. I purchased this after having used my previous set of Munsell chips for over thirty years. The colors never change and are the standard reference. I use my set for historic architectural paint analysis.

Far too expensiveAll you receive is something similar to the paint shade charts from your local hardware store.I didn’t receive a wallet or case as shown.