Inter-Society Color Council

The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) is a non-profit learned society which was created in 1931 to advance the understanding and application of visual color as it relates to science, industry, and art.{{cite journal | last1 = Gage | first1 = H. P | year = 1940 | title = Color Theories and the Inter-Society Color Council | journal = Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers| volume = 35 | issue = 10| pages = 361–87 | doi = 10.5594/J10038 }}{{cite journal | year = 1950 | title = 1950 Annual Meeting of the Inter-Society Color Council | doi = 10.1364/JOSA.40.000092 | journal = Journal of the Optical Society of America | volume = 40 | issue = 2| pages = 92 | bibcode = 1950JOSA...40...92. }}Series Description and Inventory, Accession 2188,[http://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/2188.xml&doc.view=content&brand=default&anchor.id=0#series1], Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE USA{{cite book|last1=Brewster Judd|first1=Deane|title=Contributions to Color Science|date=1979|publisher=University of Michigan Library, Center for Building Technology|pages=219–224|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgz_iI8NAzYC&dq=%22Inter-Society+Color+Council%22&pg=PA219|access-date=10 September 2014}}{{cite journal|last1=Nickerson|first1=Dorothy|title=Fifty years of the inter-society color council. I. Formation and early years|journal=Color Research & Application|date=Spring 1982|volume=7|issue=1|pages=1–11|doi=10.1002/col.5080070102}}W. J. Keirnan, The Story of the Inter-Society Color Council,[http://www.iscc.org/Newsletters/ISCCNews173.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524135156/http://www.iscc.org/Newsletters/ISCCNews173.pdf|date=2015-05-24}},"Inter-Society Color Council Newsletter", Number 173, September–December 1964{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1007/BF02553640|title = A.O.C.S. Becomes member of Inter-Society Color Council|journal = Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society|year = 1948|volume = 25|page = 16|s2cid = 189784854}}{{Cite book |doi = 10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_6424|last1 = Gooch|first1 = Jan W.|chapter = Inter-Society Color Council|editor-last1 = Gooch|editor-first1 = Jan W.|title = Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers|year = 2011|pages = 394–395|isbn = 978-1-4419-6246-1 |location=New York |publisher=Springer}} The Council also serves to coordinate between different organizations in the United States for which color plays a major role (for example, design, printing, or computer graphics).{{cite journal | last1 = Nickerson | first1 = D | year = 1940 | title = Standardization of color names the ISCC-NBS Method | journal = Am Dyestuff Reptr | volume = 29 | page = 392 }}{{cite journal |last1=Judd |first1=D. B. |first2=D. L. |last2=MacAdam |title=Method of Designating Colors |journal=Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards |volume=23 |pages=355–385 |date=September 1939|issue=3 |doi=10.6028/jres.023.019 |doi-access=free }} The Council is composed of individual members and Sustaining Members, and supplies the United States' representatives to the International Commission on Illumination. The society maintains three Interest Groups to provide focus for presentations at conferences. The Interest Groups are Fundamental and Applied Color Research, Industrial Applications of Color, and Art, Design, and Psychology.{{cite web|title=Aims and Purposes|url=http://www.iscc.org/organization/aims.php|publisher=ISCC|access-date=10 September 2014}}