What’s that color above? If you’re English or American, your answer would probably be sky blue, or a light turquoise. But in Japanese it would be called mizu, which translates as “water”. The rest of ...

Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: ...