Colors most frequently seen in dreams (by people who see color in dreams) are black, white, and red, according to Kelly Bulkeley, who built an awesome database of dreams. Those are also the first three colors to appear in languages. Because of course they are.
Tag: color
Sapir-Whorf
https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-blue-and-green-appeared-language-1102 Learning a new language with a different color naming scheme affects the way people view colors. Brb, must check whether Duolingo offers OtjiHimba.
Color
Cool things about color I learned today:
- When Newton said “blue” he may have meant what we mean by “cyan”. Ish. https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Color/NewtonColors.html Newton seems to have seen indigo as a shade of blue. Neil Gaiman, on the other hand, sees indigo as a shade of purple. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/09/spectrum-of-stuff.html
- There’s a CSS color (#663399) named Rebecca Purple (warning – this one is terribly sad) https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-your-web-browser-7d84813bb416
- Hanuno’o language, from Philippines, has four color categories that are distinguished by light/dark and red/green and at the same time indicate wetness/dryness and strength/weakness http://unurthed.com/2008/11/29/hanunoo-color-categories/
This is a good place to put my favorite links about color:
- Visualization of color in cultures https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/
- Himba colors https://glimpsejournal.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/from-the-glimpse-archives-naming-color/
- Changing how you talk about color (“this is a purple pencil” vs “this is a pencil that’s purple”) affects how well a toddler will identify colors. Also, toddlers seem to identify colors by the same mechanism horses use to do arithmetic, i. e. by responding to the non-verbal signals of their handler. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-johnny-name-colors/
- Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ https://xkcd.com/1882/