Color Strategies, LLC

Today, U.S. Utility Patent No. 12,555,150 was issued for the Color Strategy System. I am the sole inventor.

In a field with no governing body, occupied by self-certifying programs and subjective methods, I chose to subject my system to federal examination.

Instead of asking the industry to *just trust me, I'm a color expert*, I asked an overqualified-third-party, The U.S. Patent Office, to examine it.

A patent is not granted casually.

A process must demonstrate novelty and non-obviousness. It must also be coherent. It must have a defined beginning, middle, and end. It must be executable by someone skilled in the field.

That confirmation matters.

Color decision-making in the built environment has long been treated as intuitive or decorative. It is neither. It is structured, measurable, and resolvable.

This issuance is foundational infrastructure.

We have a roadmap for updates across the board starting with The Four Pillars course. Marketing and messaging strategies also reflect the new Color Strategy ecosystem category the patent entrenched.

As you can imagine, this isn't going to get done in a day. I also have a second patent pending.

But what we can do today, is state on the record that Certified Color Strategists are certified in a patented Color Strategy System.

Today's Color Note: Legible Color

The brief has been briefed. Dimensions collected. Scope and specifications are documented. Milestones mapped.

And color? It’s in pile somewhere: a mountain of chips, memos, amorphously shaped cuttings, or unruly samples.

When color is translated into hue, value, and chroma, it becomes readable. And once color can be read, it can be organized and specified with remarkable confidence.

Legibility transforms color from subjective interpretation to an orderly decision making infrastructure.

Because why just eyeball color when you can understand it — 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.

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