From Lindbloom’s site: “The mapping was done such that Munsell hue 2.5RP has a UP Lab hue angle of zero degrees. This particular rotation was chosen to allow greater chroma encoding of blue colors in the lower right quadrant of the a/b plane.”

Also, to be completely precise, it should be noted that the lightness dimension of UPLab was left the same as CIELAB’s lightness, rather than using Munsell value. Only a and b were adjusted to reflect Munsell hue/chroma.