About

Just over 270 years ago, a book was not only
written about the use of color in painting, but
also the rst copy that, on its pages,
explained how to create certain tones and
change others by adding one, two, or three
parts of water, demonstrating that there was
chromatic life before Pantone.

Exactly in 1962, before Lawrence Herbert -
founder of Pantone - created an innovative
system to identify, match, and communicate
colors, the artist A. Boogert mixed and
dened colors in a handwritten book entitled
"Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à
l’eau".

Throughout its 700 pages, A. Boogert
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