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a story your brain tells about wavelengths it can't actually see directly
means the visual quality of objects produced by how they reflect or emit light at different wavelengths, perceived as hues like red, blue, or green.
from From Latin 'color,' which meant not just hue but also outward appearance or surface — and even, figuratively, a pretext or rhetorical 'coloring.' It traveled through Old French 'color' into English. The root is thought to be tied to a Latin verb for covering or concealing ('celare,' to hide), the idea being that color is the skin laid over a thing — fittingly, the very thing your brain insists you're seeing directly.
- no pink
- Pink has no wavelength; your brain invents it
- mantis shrimp
- They have 16 color receptors; humans have three
- the dress
- One photo split the internet over its colors
- chimp blue
- Many languages lacked a word for blue for millennia
- black hue
- Black is the absence of light, not a color
pantone 448 c — the ugliest color according to pantone's 2012 study, used to discourage smoking on cigarette packages
vantablack — the darkest artificial color ever created by surrey nanosystems in 2014, absorbs 99.965% of light
international klein blue — proprietary pigment created by artist yves klein in 1960, trademarked and legally protected