Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time

Ingrid Sundberg's Color Thesaurus

Mummy Brown and Other Historical Colors

The Chemistry of Permanent Hair Dyes

Cosmic Latte: the average colour of the universe

The mystery of tetrachromacy: If 12% of women have four cone types in their eyes, why do so few of them actually see more colours? (Neurosphere blog, 17 December 2015)

Yves Klein: the Man Who Invented a Colour (BBC, 28 August 2014)

A Year Ago, The Dress Murdered the Idea of Objective Color: "... color is a proxy for understanding the difference between objective reality and the version of it that people perceive with their senses and create in their brains." (Wired, February 2016)

Transgenic zebrafish forms technicolour 'skinbow': Fluorescent proteins used to track individual skin cells in real time.

Colour: the Spectrum of Science

The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors

The Extraordinary Iridescent Details of Peacock Feathers Captured Under a Microscope


The Search for Our Missing Colors

First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language (New Scientist, 1 July 2016)

A Chemist Accidentally Creates A New Blue. Then What? (NPR, 16 July 2016)

'You could disappear into it': Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the 'blackest black' (Guardian Australia, 26 September 2016)