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 ...

If you've got a web page of your own in need of new hues and you don't speak hexidecimal color codes, try out web designer Eric Meyer's Color Blender.

Human vision may be responsible for the hierarchy of color names found across the world, with names for easier-to-see wavelengths becoming fixed in a culture first, scientists say.

Because W3C aims to standardize the technology on the World Wide Web, X11 color names can be incorporated into CSS despite being accidentally born.

“Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names Inspiration runs the gamut for colors like “lemon chiffon" and "rebecca purple." ...

But not all of Farrow & Ball’s paint color names are abstract. One of this year’s new colors is the plainly named Yellowcake, “a classic bright yellow named to reflect the revival of the ...