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The Color Lab Collection


Our library of resources is contantly growing.  View our collection and request items here through the Visual+Materials Resource Center at the Fleet Library. Please visit regularly to see what’s new.

  • Over 300 common and rare dry pigments
  • Over 50 books covering a wide breadth of topics related to color study
  • A unique collection of 150 historic textile dyes and colorants from the American Textile History Museum
  • A collection of rare indigo cakes produced in the late 19th century
  • A collection of laboratory glassware and an induction hot plate that can be used to mix and experiment with a variety of artist’s materials
  • An X-Rite i1Studio Spectrophotometer for calibrating and profiling monitors, projectors, scanners, and printers (available through RISD Media Resources checkout system)
  • A complete collection of professional reference fan decks and swatch binders containing architectural coating offerings from Benjamin Moore
  • A collection of professional sample boards for acrylic paints and mediums from Golden Artist Colors
  • A Munsell 3D “Color Tree” and accompanying “Book of Color" models for visualizing color space
  • An offering of promotional brochures featuring design trends and coating specifications from Benjamin Moore
  • A collection of designer’s reference fan decks and swatch binders from Pantone, including CMYK coated and uncoated, metallic, pastel and neon, extended gamut, and other
  • A collection of Panelite samples
  • A 3D swatch library of the “Pantone Plastics Color System"
  • A Sony 55 inch LCD display with Apple TV
  • A changing inventory of informational posters and signage compiled and designed by RISD staff that feature the ideas, concepts, and color study methods of prominent colorists such as Albers, Munsell, and Itten
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    Color Served Daily
    The RISD Color Lab is a multiplatform space where faculty and students can engage with the one aspect of art and design that draws us all together : COLOR

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    Visit the Color Lab
    Our exhibition space is viewable from the street at 30 North Main. Our physical materials collection may be requested through the Visual + Material Resource Center at Fleet Library.


    colorlab@risd.edu