Azure —A French girl’s name meaning “sky blue.” Cerulean — This boy’s name means “deep sky-blue.” The color played an ...

White began its life in PIE as *kwintos and meant simply white or bright. ... Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages.

The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work, suggest computer simulations with virtual people.

She says Benjamin Moore offers more than 150 shades of white, and “when people are choosing white, I see more people unhappy or making a mistake or being shocked at the color than when they ...

There are no languages with three color terms where the named colors are centered on black, white and light green, for example. If a language has four color terms, they will be black, white, red ...

The naming process for paint colors is less serendipitous and more strategic than you think. Consumer Reports explains how paint colors get their names.

If a language had only three color words, they were black, white and red. Yellow and green came next in either order, then blue, brown and so on. This hierarchy closely matches human psychology.

So when I got that color name through, that was my pride and joy.” Natalie Ebel, co-founder of Backdrop, a direct-to-consumer ...

Human vision may be responsible for the hierarchy of color names found across the world, with names for easier-to-see wavelengths becoming fixed in a culture first, scientists say.

In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple and gray. That’s what we have in American English.