It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like “vermilion” and “chartreuse,” were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a ...

I think it was my first week at my new job at the college when I called Dianne Suschil to ask about some mundane office supply. “No problem, I’ll walk it to your office in a few minutes,” she said. I ...

The Tsimane’ people of the Amazon (pronounced chee-MAH-nay, roughly) hunt, farm, and forage. They don’t have a lot of technology. And if you talk to them about the colors they see in the world, they ...

OMAHA, OUR LITTLE WORKS OF ART WITH THE MESSAGE. IT’S A GIFT OF INSPIRATION FROM A NORTH OMAHA NATIVE AND IT’S TONIGHT’S PROJECT COMMUNITY REPORT. I AM VERY BOLD AND COLORFUL HER SELF-PORTRAIT HAS ...

Both the artist’s and author’s palette offer inexhaustible choices to convey ideas. Whether a word or brush stroke, the right choice demands clarity and specificity to achieve the desired shade of ...

I never knew playing with words clouds would be so interesting. I am talking about Wordaizer; a free and handy word cloud generator software that allowed me to create pictures with colorful word ...