Today, naturalists who want to capture the precise color of a certain specimen can rely on color photography, safe in the knowledge that the hues can be preserved for exact recreation or reference.

At first thought, a color dictionary seems about as useful as a deer carcass to a vegan chef. In my usual fashion, after further investigation this device proved to be a bit more useful than I ...

Over at the Smithsonian, Daniel Lewis has a fascinating article up about 19th Century color dictionaries, which were use by scientists to standardize descriptions. Color, Lewis notes, is very ...

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This book is a collection of 348 color combinations originated by Sanzo Wada(1883-1967) who, in that time of increasingly avant-grade and diversified use of color, was quick to focus on the importance ...