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The color-mixing guide that names show-card writers, as an instant download.
The Color Mixing Guide for Artists, Painters, Decorators, Printing Pressmen and Show Card Writers (1923) by John L. King names her customers right on the title page — practical color-mixing reference for every trade that touches pigment. The working color reference.
Inside this 1923 handbook:
Before premixed everything, painters mixed everything — and John L. King (1923) wrote down how: practical color theory for painters. For painters, sign painters, and decorators, 92 pages of color sense that never expires. Mix the tints as given and brush them out — the recipes were proven in daily shop use.
Complete your shelf: See also Paint & Colour Mixing: A Practical Handbook (1906), Sign, Carriage and Decorative Painting (1897), Modern Painting, Hardwood Finishing and Sign Writing (1914).
Details:
- Complete 1923 edition scan — 90 pages
- Color mixing for five trades including show-card writers
- Practical pigment reference
- Tint recipes and mixing tables from the working trade
- Color theory written for painters, not artists
- How old painters judged a mix: undertone and overtone
- Two files included: the original scan, cleaned of dust, stray marks, and handwritten notes, and a cleaned white-background edition that's easy on the eyes and the printer
- PDF format, instant download after purchase — no physical book ships
