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*Webster, G. Colour Symbolism, an anthropological diversion. British Colour Council, 14th Designers' Conference 1955.
*Webster, G. Colour Symbolism, an anthropological diversion. British Colour Council, 14th Designers' Conference 1955.
===Selected BCC publications===
===Selected BCC publications===
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL & WILSON, Robert F.Dictionary of Colour Standards . 2 volumes. +240 silk colour samples. London, BCC (1934)
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, THE HORTICULTURAL COLOUR CHART, in collaboration with Royal Horticultural Society. 2 vols, London, 1938-1941.
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, THE HORTICULTURAL COLOUR CHART, in collaboration with Royal Horticultural Society. 2 vols, London, 1938-1941.
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL & WILSON, Robert F.Colour and Lighting in Factories and Offices . 2 volumes. London, BCC (1946)
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, WILSON, Robert F. & MITCHELL, Audrey M. Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. 3 volumes. 378 samples in gloss, matt & pile. London, BCC (1949)
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, WILSON, Robert F. & MITCHELL, Audrey M. Dictionary of Colour Standards +240 dyed woollen samples. London, BCC (1951)
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL. The British Colour Council’s Seventh Designer’s Conference. The Rose as a Theme for Design. London, 1952.
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL. The British Colour Council’s Seventh Designer’s Conference. The Rose as a Theme for Design. London, 1952.
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL Machinery Colours Safety Colour Code Pipe Identification Colours. (B.C.C.)
*BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL Machinery Colours Safety Colour Code Pipe Identification Colours. (B.C.C.)

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The British Colour Council (BCC) was an industry standards organisation, active from the 1930s to the 1950s, which produced indexs of named colours for use by government, industry, academia, and horticulture.

Founded in 1931 and chaired by designer Robert F. Wilson, the BCC produced the British Colour Council reference Code or British Colour Codes: indexes of named colours for a variety of industries. Its first major work was the British Colour Council 1934 "Dictionary of Colour Standards"[1] which defined colour shades in its printed plates and gave a two of three number code and evocative names to each colour. The colour names given by the BCC were particularly descriptive and often refered to biology, with titles such as Larkspur ("No. 196"), Bee Eater Blue, Kermes, and Squirrel.[2] The codes of the BCC became standards for identifing colours used in everything from the Royal Horticultural Society, to the British Army,[3] Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Royal Mail.[4] In the late 1930s the BCC produced books for use in horticulture. Its first (1938) version included 200 named hues, printed as 3 lightnesses each for a total of 600 (later 800) colours, each given distinctive names.[5] The BCC also advised the 1937 royal corination, providing "Traditional British Colours" for flags and street decorations.[6]

The BCC continued to publish colour codes through the early 1950s, and while largely suplanted by standards such as CYMK and Pantone, the BCC codes are still refered to by industries in the United Kingdom[7] and used as standards for some British Commonwealth flags[8], academic robes [9] and horticulture.[10]


References

  1. ^ British Colour Council. Dictionary of Colour Standards. London: British Colour Council (1934)
    British Colour Council. Dictionary of Colour Standards. London: British Colour Council (2nd Edition 1951)
  2. ^ Color: The Magic and Mystery of Words, Color Matters (nd)
    Arthur O. Tucker, Michael J. Maciarello and Sharon S. Tucker. A Survey of Color Charts for Biological Descriptions. Taxon, Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 201-214
  3. ^ British Standard Colour Table British Vehicle Colours in World War Two, Military Miniatures Magazine (1997)
  4. ^ Patrick Baty. The 1950s Colours: Background to some Colours of the 1950s & early 1960s, Papers and Paints (2003)
    Turner Lecture: The Only Thing Constant Is Change - A Life in Colour: presentation of Turner Medal to Ms Zandra Rhodes, Royal College of Art, 7 February 2007.
  5. ^ Horticultural Colour Chart, Volumes I and II, by Robert F. Wilson, 1938-41, issued by the British Colour Council in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society and published by Henry Stone and Son, Ltd., Banbury, England.
    Azalea Society of America, 2005.
    The Royal Horticultural Society and the Colour Council collaborated on a Horticultural Colour Chart, specifically designed to the colour range of cultivated plants. Printed from 1939 to 1941, it contained boxes of 200 sheets, with tints arranged four-to-a-page, and totalled 800 screen-printed colour patches. Brent Elliott. Match maker, RHS Journals, The Garden. May 2001
  6. ^ .British traditional colours souvenir in connection with the coronation of His Majesty King George VI and Her Majesty. The British Colour Council, Lontoo 1937
    Was there a George VI style? Alan Powers. Apollo, Oct, 2004.
  7. ^ see "Paints and Paper", above, and History of Colour in Machines, Colour Academy, 2006.
  8. ^ see Flag of Barbados, and South Africa National Defence Force Flags, Flags of the World. The official colour of this flag was misnamed "Beetle Green", a misreading of the BCC's "Green Beetle". Other Commonwealth flags using BCC standards include Aruba and Zambia.
  9. ^ Scott, Elizabeth, 'The BCC Numbering System: Back to the Future?', Transactions of the Burgon Society, 5 (2005), pp. 90-122. The two editions of the British Colour Council's Dictionary of Colour Standards, as wekll as specialist charts, have been used by many universities to designate the shades prescribed for facings and linings of their academical robes and hoods. The Burgon Society Library: Bibliography of Academical Dress, compiled by Alex Kerr, (nd).
    Statndards of Academic Dress, University of Melbourne, Australia. Gives standards in BCC colours.
  10. ^ Diana Miller. Using Colour Charts, HORTAX NEWS Vol 1, Part 4 - 29 Apr 1998. Discusses th movement away from the BCC standards, begun with a new RHS chart in 1966, and its continued use.
  • Tracy Diane, Tom Cassidy. Colour Forecasting. Blackwell Publishing (2005) ISBN:1405121203 pp.15-16, 95
  • Webster, G. Colour Symbolism, an anthropological diversion. British Colour Council, 14th Designers' Conference 1955.

Selected BCC publications

  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL & WILSON, Robert F.Dictionary of Colour Standards . 2 volumes. +240 silk colour samples. London, BCC (1934)
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, THE HORTICULTURAL COLOUR CHART, in collaboration with Royal Horticultural Society. 2 vols, London, 1938-1941.
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL & WILSON, Robert F.Colour and Lighting in Factories and Offices . 2 volumes. London, BCC (1946)
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, WILSON, Robert F. & MITCHELL, Audrey M. Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. 3 volumes. 378 samples in gloss, matt & pile. London, BCC (1949)
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL, WILSON, Robert F. & MITCHELL, Audrey M. Dictionary of Colour Standards +240 dyed woollen samples. London, BCC (1951)
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL. The British Colour Council’s Seventh Designer’s Conference. The Rose as a Theme for Design. London, 1952.
  • BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL Machinery Colours Safety Colour Code Pipe Identification Colours. (B.C.C.)
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