The Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test has been used for the past 60 years in various industries as a
method for evaluating an individual’s ability to discern color. The respondent gets a precise result in
which part of the colored space has a weaker sense of color distinction. It can also be ranked according
to the overall result. For a production manager or production technician, a satisfactory result from
this test is ≤ 40 points, and for a strict color assessment, a designer or a person with a very strict color
evaluation criterion must have a result of ≤ 16 points. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new
method of ranking respondents according to sense of color differences. Respondent’s ranking results
for color difference are declared in ΔE and can be compared with instrumental measurements.
Respondent’s rank results within the method represented in this work can be expressed by ΔE*ab,
ΔE*CMC, ΔE*94 or ΔE*00 and can be compared directly with results obtained by instrumental
measurement.
