What if a color you encounter every day revealed a great deal about our inner landscapes? Behind its apparent ordinariness, ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. For the past few weeks, we’ve been tackling queries on the theme of “blue.” What ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...

The longer we perform our studies in affective color psychology, the more we get asked if such affective color metaphors are related to or are even at the origin of color-emotion associations. Thus, ...

Whether it’s the black of Black Friday, the white of the driven snow, or even the holiday blues, colors are deeply embedded in the rituals of life. But how have color terms come to be used for so much ...