The system's inventor, Hsu Yun-peng, only had a junior high school education, but had researched color matching for 18 years in a dyeing factory. Discovering that imported color matching software was of little practical use, Hsu, who didn't know a word of English, taught himself to program and wrote an improved version of the software.
「漢風色典」發明人許雲鵬只有國中畢業，在染整廠裡做了十八年的配色研究，當時國外進口的電腦配色軟體「中看不中用」，英文大字不識一個的許雲鵬居然靠著自修，寫出了改良版的軟體。