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?
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?
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.
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