9 Colour and Culture
Overviews
ColorAcademy 2006 (Don Pavey and Roy Osborne)
Currently available only on the archive.org Wayback Machine. See sections on Popular Culture, Arts & Humanities, Environment, Industry and Communication.
Colour Naming
Kelly, Kenneth Low, and Judd, Deane Brewster, Color : universal language and dictionary of names (1976)
Colour naming (Dimitris Mylonas)
An online experiment designed to collect colour names in multiple languages with their corresponding colour ranges.
Colour namer (Dimitris Mylonas)
A synthetic observer trained by participants’ responses to name each colour in different languages
How to make sense of ancient Greek colours (Peter Gainsford)
Colour words in many languages (Omniglot)
A large (9284) list of named colors (Martin Krzywinski)
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world (Vox)
Video explaining the Berlin-Kay hypothesis
Colour Symbolism
Conroy, Ellen, The symbolism of colour (1921)
This is color (Nicole Cohen and Beth Novey).
Color proportions in nation's flags (Martin Krzywinski)
Kobayashi, Shigenobu, Color image scale (1991)*
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