A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and ...

Pantone has been the industry-standard color language for 60 years. Its tools ensure that color looks the same, no matter where in the world it's printed. If you design or print physical products, ...

People perceive colors categorically. But what is the role of the environment (or nature)--specifically, language--in color perception? The effects of language on the way people categorize and ...

I offer a new objectivist theory of the contents of color language and color experience, intended especially as an account of what normal intersubjective variation in color perception and ...

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 ...