Australien — A popular color for Victorian ladies' dresses, australien is a dark sandy orange-yellow color meant to evoke the ...

Portuguese red and purple. As languages add color words to their lexicon, the colors a word refers to can get shifted around. Portuguese roxo, related to the same PIE word reudh, ...

New research investigates how people sequentially add new color terms to languages over time – and the results hold surprises about assumptions linguists have made for 40 years.

Speaking a language with different words for different color shades allows the brain to perceive those shades quicker ... there are 11 basic color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue ...

A series of color swatches are laid in front of you – each swatch a different color. A researcher asks you which one is red, and you pick the one you believe is red. You then repeat the name ...