As the delightful Radiolab episode "Colors" describes, ancient languages didn't have a word for blue — not Greek, not Chinese, not Japanese, not Hebrew. And without a word for the color, there ...

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 ...

The speaker’s task is to simply label the color with a word (“red,” “blue” and so on). Participants had to communicate one of the 80 color chip choices from across the color grid.

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 ...

Black. Black derives from words invariably meaning the color black, as well as dark, ink and “to burn.” Originally meaning, burning, blazing, glowing and shining, in PIE it was *bhleg.

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 ...