American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Current edition approved Oct. 1, 2005. Published October 2005. Originally approved in 1967. Last previous edition approved in 2000 as E 313 – 00. 6 p. This practice provides numbers that correlate with visual ratings of yellowness or whiteness of white and nearwhite or colorless object-color specimens, viewed in daylight by an observer with normal color vision. White textiles, paints, and plastics are a few of the materials that can be described by the indices of yellowness or whiteness calculated by this practice.