Abstract: The truthful reproduction of human skin color on color television is important. Departures of the reproduced chromaticity from a very restricted range of acceptable values are immediately apparent to the viewer, and slight differences in chromaticity between different pictures of the same subject (e. g. when televised by different cameras) are also immediately discernable. For this reason, a neutral gray-scale balance between the different cameras in a studio is usually followed by a flesh tone balance. A flesh tone test card was made for this purpose. This report introduces the standards of the flesh tone test card and its advantages in subjective assessment of face tone and color balance on the color monitor.

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