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 Websterās Third
The Rich and Royal History of Purple
Colour or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of āOrangeā
How Beets Became Beet-red
How Colour Shapes Our Lives
In defense of the world's ugliest colour, "Opaque CouchƩ"
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
