When I asked a neighbor about what I took to be a trend, she regaled me with the history of a color she called “haint blue”—a story about the violence of indigo production in the South Carolina Low ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

A red object looks red because it reflects the red wavelength of light, and the same is true for all other colors. There is no such thing as “black light wavelength,” so why do black T-shirts, black ...

You may notice that some colors you can perceive aren’t part of the classic rainbow, though. Where is black, for example? I’m an associate professor of color science, a field that combines ...

She decided to open her own agency focused on creators who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), especially Black creators, to help them earn more income. A December 2021 ...