South American Spanish additionally divides the blue space into light blue ("celeste") and dark blue ("azul"). Members of Tsimane' society consistently use only three color words, which correspond ...

Watchet is a very pale blue color. ... But as neat a story as this is, it’s much more likely that watchet is really derived from waiss, an old Belgian-French word for royal blue. 15. Zaffre.

What is it about blue? Well, think about the color blue in nature. It barely exists. Even blueberries are not really blue. Blue is the rarest of colors. That is the lesson of techelet, the ...

WHY, INDEED, HAVE writers been so drawn to the color? According to surveys, blue is by far the world’s most popular hue, regardless of geography or gender — mostly owing to our favorable ...

This phenomenon is known as color categorization, that is, the grouping of shades in the same category associated with a word such as green, red, blue, or pink.

From "feeling blue" to "seeing red," the language of color reveals surprising histories and deep psychological connections that get put to work for much more than describing hues.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive about 1 million colors, but languages have far fewer words to describe those colors. So-called basic color terms, single color words used frequently by ...