Editor’s Note: This feature is part of Colorscope, an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. See more here. Ever heard that if you ...

Michel Pastoureau, Yellow: The History of a Color (image courtesy of Princeton University Press) My copy of the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and ...

The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...

If there's one color to know about for spring and summer 2025, it's butter yellow. Pale, buttery yellows are everywhere in interiors right now, and for good reason: this soft, nostalgic hue is both ...