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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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

The way we commonly use color and number words in English makes it unnecessarily difficult for kids to learn the concepts Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, ...