Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but our brains evolved a solution. When we “see” a combination of blue and red ...

At least, when it comes to one color people think is on the spectrum. Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple.

Using lasers, doctors can alter cornea pigments. The FDA doesn't regulate this growing practice — is it worth it?

A fascinating study has uncovered that the pigments responsible for their remarkable color shifts could play a role in generating electricity. The dazzling color-changing abilities of cephalopods ...

The chemical, titanium dioxide, became what color researcher Matthijs de Keijzer calls the “most significant contribution” to an explosion in 20th-century pigment technology, in what some ...

Along with the green pigment are yellow to orange pigments, carotenes and xanthophyll pigments which, for example, give the orange color to a carrot. Most of the year these colors are masked by great ...

In addition, these pencils come in different sizes, quality and pigment proportions to meet different needs. Students, hobbyists and professional artists use the best-colored pencils to add color ...