Many believe that the way we see blue – that is, as a distinct color – is actually a modern development. For those in the past, the concept of the color blue might not have existed at all.

For the record, it IS a photograph, of a real place, that I took on our flight from Cardiff to Faro. The blue colour is from the water reflecting the sky and the white flecks are of course the clouds.

Color no one surprised: These days, even a new crayon name draws criticism. Crayola announced the name of a new blue crayon this week: “Bluetiful,” which beat out four other names with 40% of ...

But then, the story of Japan's interaction with the colour blue has always been a rather peculiar one. One of the first things any student of elementary Japanese learns is that the word for "blue ...

Native speakers of Russian – which lacks a single word for "blue" – discriminated between … Subjects had to pick which one of the two bottom squares matched the colour of the top square.