The color c ards of the Textile Color Card Association of the United Stat es are widely used i n the textile and a lli ed industries and by many p rocuring agencies o f t h e Federal Government. The Textile Color Card Association issues both seasonal and standard color cards. The seasonal car ds p rovide a color-fo recastin g sery ice to textile manufacturers and promote color coord ination am ong t h e t rades; the standard cards present colors for which there is a popu la r and continuing demand. Most impor tant of the color cards is t he Standar d Color Card of Ameri ca, the current nint h ed ition containi ng 216 colors. Preeminent amon g t he m a ny special sets of color cards iss ued by t he Association for use of the Federa l Governm ent is t h e United States Army Color Card showing 22 official colors for the arms and services. T he specification of the colors of t he Ninth Edition Standard Color Card and the Un ited States Army Color Card h as been undertaken for the pur pose of correlating these textile standar ds with American War Standard Z44-1942 for the specification and description of color. T he 238 samples comprising these color cards have been examined by basic spectrophotometric and colorimetric procedures. From th is study t here have been foun d d ayli ght r eflectance, Y, ch romaticity coordinates (x,y) , Munsell renota.t ions, and I SCC-NBS color designations for these samples, as recommended by American W ar Stan dar d Z44-1942. As more than half of these texti le s tandards a re flu orescent, and as existing spect.rophotometers are not sui ted t o t h e evaluation of such samples, considerahle reliance has been p laced on q uantitative co lorimetri c an d p hotometric comparisons with t h e Munsell colo r standards, both by means of a chromati city-difference colorimet.er and by t he Martens p h otom eter.As a closing check, Munsell book notations of these textile standards h ave been obtained by a direct visual comparison with the color scales of t he Munsell Book of Color.