It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like “vermilion” and “chartreuse,” were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a ...

Lots of fancy color words come from flowers or fruits: violet, periwinkle, lavender, lilac, olive, eggplant, pumpkin, and peach, to name a few. In English, pink used to refer exclusively to a flower ...

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: ...

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 ...

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