Abstract: The reproduction of preferred colors of Chinese skin, blue-sky andyellowish green uniform in transparencies was investigated. The category-judgment method was employed for subjective evaluation of the quality ofexperimental samples projected on the screen. 60 observers made appraisals. Based on the results the chromaticities and the accaptable range ofpreferred colors of familiar objects were given respectively. The resultsindicated that the preferred Chinese skin color tends to be more reddish, butthe purity is the same as the natural skin color. Compared with the naturalcolor of blue-sky and yellowish green uniform, the dominant wave lengthof preferred color of blue-sky and yellowish green uniform remains unch-anged, but the purity of preferred blue-sky color is appreciably greaterthan any of the sky colors observed, and the purity of preferred yellowishgreen uniform is much lower than the natural color.

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