Sites
Color Categorization and Matching
- Is My Blue Your Blue? (About)
- How Well Can You Remember Colors? | Dialed (Also Pantone Recall)
- Match This Color
- Can You Tell Colors Apart?
- Color Name Finder
- ManyLanguagesManyColors
- Hue Color Comparisons: how languages name the hue colors
Mono Japan
- A Visual Archive of Japan: 36 Traditional Blues
- IRO Vol.1 : The Japanese Philosophy of Color and Imperfection
Favorite Colors
- Color of the Year
- The World’s Favorite Crayola Colors
- YouGov: Why is blue the world’s favorite color?
History of Color
Optical illusions and more!
New Colors!
Olo
“There’s no wavelength in the world that can stimulate only the M cone,” said study senior author Ren Ng, a professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, “I began wondering what it would look like if you could just stimulate all the M cone cells. Would it be like the greenest green you’ve ever seen?”
- Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’
- Scientists claim to have discovered ‘new colour’ no one has seen before
Vantablack
Vantablack is not available for public or artistic use because artist Anish Kapoor bought exclusive artistic rights to it, and the manufacturer (Surrey NanoSystems) restricts it to scientific, aerospace, and military applications.
People
Color Nerd (Peter Donahue) Website | Classes on Drawing America | On YouTube
David Briggs: The Dimensions of Color. A deeper dive into color terminology and comparisons of color systems
ColourChat (Stephen Westland): Lots of great articles. The section on color theory in 2 minutes is incredibly useful. Also on Patreon