Some Readings About Colours And Colour Theory

Some readings about colours and colour theory

Articles:

10 ways to look at the colour black

The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colours names, and it messed with our brains part I II

Seeing Cerise: Defining Colours in Webster’s Third

The Rich and Royal History of Purple

Colour or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

How Beets Became Beet-red

How Colour Shapes Our Lives

In defense of the world's ugliest colour, "Opaque Couché"

A Brief History Of Ultramarine: The World's Costliest Colour

The Histories of 10 colours through multiple lenses

From Gemstones to Arsenic: How Development of Pigment Colored Art

A Collection of 3000 pigments made from cow urine, shells and insects and more

The Red of Painters

The Secret Literary History of Some Of Your Favourite Colours

Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion

A series on history of some common colours

A series on history of uncommon colours

Some more columns on unusual colours

Further reading:

The Theory of Colour, Goethe

The Secret Language Of Colours, Joann & Arielle Ekstut

Interaction of Color, Josef Albers

The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair

Werner's nomenclature of colours

Blue: The History of a Colour, Michel Pastoureau

The Primary Colours: Three Essays, Alexander Theroux

The Perfect Red, Amy Butler

The Brilliant History of Color In Art & Colour: Travel Through The Paintbox by Victoria Finlay

On Color, David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing