People with color vision deficiency do not always know they have it! Usually, people find out in real-life situations, such ...

Xerox’s Color By Words technology lets users select phrases from a drop-down menu that help them adjust colors in their images simply, quickly and accurately.

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 ...

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 ...

MIT cognitive scientists have found that languages tend to divide the "warm" part of the color spectrum into more color words, such as orange, yellow, and red, than the "cooler" regions, which ...

This was the initial test administered by psychology Prof. Michael Ramscar and his staff to 34 subjects in his study on how children learn color words. Sounds easy, right? Not quite. While the ...

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 speakers of a ...