Talk:Human skin color/Archives/2004/November
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van Luschan scale
Felix von Luschan, (1854-1924)
- In anthropology, verbal descriptions of skin colors ("white," "yellow," "black," "brown," and "red") were replaced by color-matching methods during the early twentieth century (Olivier 1960, von Luschan 1897). The most popular of these methods was the von Luschan scale, based on the use of colored tablets or tiles of different colors and hues with which the colors of unexposed skin were matched. These and similar matching methods could not be consistently reproduced, however, and were swiftly abandoned when reflectance spectrophotometry was introduced in the early 1950s