Michel Pastoureau, Yellow: The History of a Color (image courtesy of Princeton University Press) My copy of the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and ...

Color wields enormous sway over our attitudes and emotions. When our eyes take in a color, they communicate with a region of the brain known as the hypothalamus, which in turn sends a cascade of ...

The science behind colors is fascinating, and it is the unique way they interact with our eyes and the environment that decides how to best apply them. Take, for example, the traffic lights, or danger ...

I have a confession: I’ve decided to paint my kitchen cabinets yellow. Not just any ordinary yellow, butter yellow. I can’t get this color out of my head and it seems the only way I will stop fussing ...

Scott Harden can’t see rainbows. “When I look at a rainbow, I see two or maybe three colours, and they’re not evenly spaced out,” he says. So when scientific figures use a rainbow colour map, he finds ...