From a young age we are primed to choose a favourite colour, but strangely as we grow up our preference often changes – and it's largely due to influences outside our control. In 1993, crayon-maker ...

Unpredictable and accidental combinations are gaining currency in design and textiles. Dominic Lutyens explores a ‘new vocabulary’ of colour. Colour touches us all in different ways – we each tend to ...

The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way. Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to ...

Nuala Morse receives funding from UCL Grand Challenge: Human Wellbeing Award for this project. Jo Volley receives funding from UCL Grand Challenges: Human Wellbeing for this project University College ...

We live our lives in Technicolor. Our world is one of green forests, blue skies and glowing orange sunsets — but all those beautiful, vibrant shades are an illusion. Living Colour, a documentary from ...

Scott Harden can’t see rainbows. “When I look at a rainbow, I see two or maybe three colours, and they’re not evenly spaced out,” he says. So when scientific figures use a rainbow colour map, he finds ...

To ensure the right colours in your images, it helps to understand how colour spaces work… Colour spaces are mathematical models describing the way colours can be represented. The easiest way of ...

In April, a team of researchers reported a device enabled them to witness an intense green-blue colour that had never been seen by humans before. After the announcement, they were bombarded by ...