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Munsell color code

Munsell color is recorded as alpha-numericHue Value/Chroma, H V/C (for example, 7.5YR 5/4 or 5R 6/4); neutral colors, lacking a hue tone, (chroma = 0) are designated with a hue of N and omit chroma or list it as zero (N 3/ or N 3/0).

Committee

Trace Materials

Date Added to Lexicon

06/12/2023

Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)

ANSI/ASTM E3254-23 Standard Practice for Use of Color in the Visual Examination and Forensic Comparison of Soil Samples. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2023. Source link

Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org