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Color
EDITORIAL
What Is Color?
We're surrounded by an astounding array of colors. But what is color? Can something that seems so real really just be a trick our eyes play on us?
January 10, 2020
Dancy Mason
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The Sky Is Purple: History's Missing Color
When a scholar examined the Odyssey and the Iliad, he noticed a glaring omission—he could find no mention of the color blue. Could the ancient Greeks even see it?
March 30, 2019
Reid Kerr-Keller
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Pantone, Klein Blue, And Vantablack: The Bizarre And Tempestuous World of Color & Copyright
We take color for granted, but few people realize that the world of color is a maze of copyright and controversy, thanks to companies like Pantone.
December 11, 2018
Samantha Henman
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