15. The method of claim 6 , further comprising using the generated color similarity measurement for at least one of color reproduction, color palette construction, image retrieval, and color profile creation.
6. A method of measuring color similarity comprising: receiving an initial color representation for each of at least a pair of image elements; selecting a set of lexical color classifiers; transforming each of the initial color representations to the set of lexical color classifiers, wherein each of the initial color representations has an associated numeric initial color attribute value transformed into a color value for each of the set of lexical color classifiers and wherein the initial color attribute values have n number of color dimensions and the set of lexical color classifiers have m number of color dimensions, wherein n is less than m; comparing the initial color representations of the at least pair of color images based on the set of lexical color classifiers; and generating a relative similarity measurement of the compared initial color representations.