When you walk into Bath & Body Works or even Yankee Candle Store, most scents have a name that identifies the carrying scent.

The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work, suggest computer simulations with virtual people. These findings suggest that wavelengths of color that are easier to ...

45 Brilliant Color Names for Boys and Girls originally appeared on Parade. It’s no secret that picking the perfect name for your son or daughter can be hard. No wonder parents often turn to the world ...

Choosing a dog can be a daunting task, given the incredible variety of breeds worldwide, made even trickier by considering ...

In some ways, colors are the ultimate example of language's power. The earliest humans didn't have words for colors. They had words for objects and actions, and it took tens of thousands of years for ...

Choosing a car's color these days presents a veritable menagerie of options: Anaconda Green, New Sable and Truffle Mica, to name a few. But those names aren't simply the whim of a back-office designer ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

I've always been fascinated by how people distinguish colors and how they choose to name them. There are lots of colors with specific hues, and appropriately specific names. For example, take one of ...