Patrick Havens on March 19th, 2008

The picture contains about 1,300 colors and the names for them that Turkers gave. Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. But there are also rich sets of modifiers (”light”, “dark”, “sea”), multiword names [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 13th, 2008

BoingBoing pointed out that the Wired Science blog posted a YouTube video of a liquid that changes color from clear to yellow to blue over and over again.
In 1973, the spectacular demonstration was perfected by Thomas Briggs and Warren Rauscher, two amazing high school science teachers.Over thirty-five years later, chemists are still trying to fully [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 9th, 2008

I trust your judgment… I’ve come to dread those words. I get many jobs a day I need to deal with. Some are simple changes to existing artwork. Some are new designs that the customer has pretty much typeset the entire thing already, and I’m just bringing it to reality. But there [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2008

I found below interesting. I knew some of it… but in a few cases I was surprised at the answers.

Some colors become huge successes early on and then fade off into obscurity… while other colors go the distance and become international icons. Here we look at 11 of the great color legends… Stop Sign Red, [...]

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