Editing Munsell color system (section)

=== Chroma ===
''Chroma'', measured radially from the center of each slice, represents the “purity” of a color (related to [[Colorfulness#Saturation|saturation]]), with lower chroma being less pure (more washed out, as in [[pastel (color)|pastels]]).<ref>Cleland (1921), [http://www.applepainter.com/Chap03/ Ch. 3]</ref> Note that there is no intrinsic upper limit to chroma. Different areas of the color space have different maximal chroma coordinates. For instance light yellow colors have considerably more potential chroma than light purples, due to the [[Color_vision#Physiology_of_color_perception|nature of the eye]] and the physics of color stimuli. This led to a wide range of possible chroma levels—up to the high 30s for some hue–value combinations (though it is difficult or impossible to make physical objects in colors of such high chromas, and they cannot be reproduced on current computer displays). Vivid solid colors are in the range of approximately 8.

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|Note that the ''Munsell Book of Color'' contains more color samples than this chart for both 5PB and 5Y (particularly bright yellows, up to 5Y 8.5/14). However, they are not reproducible in the [[sRGB color space]], which has a limited [[gamut|color gamut]] designed to match that of televisions and computer displays. There are no samples for values 0 (pure black) and 10 (pure white), which are theoretical limits not reachable in pigment, and no printed samples of value 1.
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