Links - organisations and research institutes with an interest in colour

Colour names and definitions do not always come about by chance.

A (prehaps surprisingly large) number of national and international organisations and research institutes have a special interest in some aspect of colour.

• CIE - Commission International de l' Eclairage / International Commission on Illuminant
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• SPECAD - Color and Appearance Division
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• ISCC - Inter-Society Color Council
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• ICC - The International Color Consortium
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• Colour Group of Great Britain
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• Colour Research at the University of Derby, UK
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• Colour Society of Australia
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• CoOL - Conservation On Line
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• The Lighting Resource
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• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - The Lighting Research Center
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• R.I.T. - Munsell Color Science Laboratory
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• SDC - Society of Dyers and Colourists
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• SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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• The Society for Information Display
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• Color Technology Forum
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• Scandinavian Colour Institute
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• ATSM - Committee E-12 on Color & Appearance
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• ISO - International Standards Organisation
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• ANSI - American National Standards Institute
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