Several weeks ago I put forth a query regarding colour standards. I received 1 response concerning the Munsell colour code which we have had to discard for several reasons. As I am sure many other institutions are faced with this dilemma I am going to share with you are latest thoughts. We are thinking of using a basic colour scheme: yellow orange red pink purple blue green white black brown grey silver gold copper transparent or clear We run into problems from this point on because some people are happy with the terms as is without modifiers. If people want to be descriptive they should use the description field. Plus we have an increasing number of artifact images in our database for identification purposes. Some people want to use the modifiers "light" and "dark" which ups the ante some what. Others want to go all out and use variations of the above such as dark blue-green; light orange-red. And some even want to use medium-dark red-brown. Well, you can imagine the discussions we are having. Any suggestions? Any tried and true approaches out there? Comments would be most appreciated. Yours in colour limbo ... Patti Davis-Perkins Canadian Museum of Civilization ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://museums.state.nm.us/nmmnh/museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).