J.D.H. Donney in a review for Physics Today said: "This book should prove useful to physicists, chemists, crystallographers (of course), but also to decorators and designers, from textiles to ceramics. It will be enjoyed, not only by mathematicians, but by all lovers of orderliness, logic and beauty." David Harker in a review for Science said: "It may well be that this work will become a classic essay on planar color symmetry"