天然和合成色都在我们身边。颜色的用途是无限的，包括在纺织品，油漆，塑料，印刷和化妆品中的传统应用。但是，在诸如电子显示器，喷墨打印机，光学数据存储，激光和制药等高科技应用中，色彩具有一系列激动人心的新机遇，并且学院内的色彩研究包括对纺织和非纺织应用的重要贡献。色彩物理研究涉及色彩的测量和数学规范，以尝试量化色彩的视觉感知。这考虑到诸如同色异谱现象的现象的影响，在不同的照明条件下颜色外观的变化。
Colours, both natural and synthetic, are all around us. The range of uses of colours is endless, including traditional applications in textiles, paints, plastics, printing and cosmetics. However, there is a range of exciting new opportunities for colour in high-technology applications such as electronic displays, inkjet printers, optical data storage, lasers and pharmaceuticals and the colour research within the School includes important contributions both to textile and non-textile applications. Colour physics research involves the measurement and mathematical specification of colour in attempts to quantify visual perception of colour. This takes into account the effect of phenomena such as metamerism, a change in colour appearance under different illumination conditions.