What’s that color above? If you’re English or American, your answer would probably be sky blue, or a light turquoise. But in Japanese it would be called mizu, which translates as “water”. The rest of ...

When you look at a rainbow, you see colored bands of light. In grade school, you probably learned the acronym ROY G. BIV—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The first five and the ...

Color surrounds us every day, yet many of us rely on only a handful of words to describe it. We say, “I like a soft blue” or “maybe a darker pink,” but without the right terms, it can be tricky to ...