People are always expressed in color, appoint them, and wanted to interpret or not living with them, more or less joined as a private person. Practically and theoretically classification systems and classification of colors during the last three centuries have developed delicate vocabulary description, while the colors received a number and a numeric value. Were created and inherited a lot of the terms arising from the different tests of properties and color are the same words served descriptions of various phenomena and vice versa, different words of record are the same things. Colorimetry as a science that deals with colors in one of his definition is shown as an attempt quantification color images. Quantification, as such, includes a means for quantification, which it is assumed that the light thus outside world together with the objects that the light shines and the light sources of which one is the human eye. This diploma thesis gives an overview of the basis Colorimetry through historical development through to modern methods and devices. Elements are divided by color to the source, subject, and recipient, and showing how each in its own way affects the ultimate experience of color. A special aspect is put on quality management through practical application, and the idea was all the details Compact succinct in an article from the review and during the chronological events.