The Influence of Variety Lightness of Neutral Background on Peridot’s Color Appearance

48 yellowish green peridots examined to test the color parameter under the neutral backgrounds whose lightness values are 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 by Color i5 tester, combing with the color parameter of peridots themselves, such as lightness values L*∈(50,60), chroma values C*∈(27,45), make the influence of different backgrounds on peridots’color appearence clear.With the help of two-factor analysis method, get that the F index of Row factor(standing for the lightness of peridots themselves): 16.61 which is greater than the its Fcrit index:1.40, and the F index of Column factor(standing for the lightness of backgrounds): 193.99 which is much greater than the Fcrit index, either, thus it shows that the peridots’color appearance is not only resulted by their onw lightness, but also by the backgrounds’. What is more, the influence of backgrounds is more significant; and comparing all samples’ chroma index fit line under different backgroud, find out peridot’s chroma index turning to be greater when the backgrounds’lightness increasing, and the influences are obvious during the samples with high chroma indexes. It is concluded that, for the peridots with medium lightness,the neutral backgrounds impact more on their color appearence than their own lightness do, and with the increase of backgrounds’lightness, peridots’lightness and chroma indexes will be higher.