45 Brilliant Color Names for Boys and Girls originally appeared on Parade. It’s no secret that picking the perfect name for your son or daughter can be hard. No wonder parents often turn to the world ...

1. Eburnean — If you love a good off-white or ivory color, then eburnean will certainly make your list. This name is derived from the Latin "eburneus," which means "of ivory." 2. Incarnadine — Used by ...

In some ways, colors are the ultimate example of language's power. The earliest humans didn't have words for colors. They had words for objects and actions, and it took tens of thousands of years for ...

I've always been fascinated by how people distinguish colors and how they choose to name them. There are lots of colors with specific hues, and appropriately specific names. For example, take one of ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

Update: This post was an Editor's pick by Cristy Gelling at Science Seeker, and was included in Bora Zivkovic's top 10 science blog posts of the week. Lately, I've got colors on the brain. In part I ...

The number of words representing colors, such as blue, red, yellow and green, varies depending on the culture, and in industrialized culture there are many color names used, but in industries not ...