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Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

These colors of the rainbow don’t get quite as much publicity as ROYGBIV, from puke to Isabella. (One of those two hues has a pretty sickening backstory, and it’s probably not the one you think.) But ...

For the CMYK color scheme, color specifications must be enclosed in quotation marks. For all other color schemes, the quotes are optional. You can freely intermix color-naming schemes in your programs ...

People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: ...

In some ways, colors are the ultimate example of language's power. The earliest humans didn't have words for colors. They had words for objects and actions, and it took tens of thousands of years for ...