Cymbolism lets you vote on the color you most associate with a given word, giving designers data on which colors best convey feelings. What color is the word “music?” How about the colors of words ...

It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like "vermilion" and "chartreuse," were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a ...

Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

In the peculiar world of synesthesia, people experience an involuntary joining of different sensations. These individuals may, for example, feel intense facial pressure when listening to music or see ...

No, the kid's probably not color blind. A trick for teaching children colors at a younger age--and why it is otherwise so hard for them Subject 046M, for male, was seated nervously across from me at ...

Ted Gibson receives funding from the linguistics program at the National Science Foundation, Award 1534318. Bevil Conway receives funding from the Intramural Research Program of the National Eye ...