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Colour Books
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 73,489 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 22,840 ratings — published 2016
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as colour)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,095 ratings — published 1963
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as colour)
avg rating 4.03 — 59,830 ratings — published 2009
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,097 ratings — published 1810
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as colour)
avg rating 4.43 — 274 ratings — published 2019
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colour)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,298 ratings — published 2010
Chromophobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colour)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,295 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
by (shelved 6 times as colour)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,979 ratings — published 2002
Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 42,234 ratings — published 2009
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,001 ratings — published 1961
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.19 — 465 ratings — published 1814
Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.15 — 528 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.28 — 764,473 ratings — published 1982
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,914 ratings — published 2000
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 129 ratings — published 1993
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 3.34 — 261 ratings — published 2013
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 834 ratings — published 2008
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,855 ratings — published 2000
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,103 ratings — published 2005
Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 281 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 4.31 — 821 ratings — published 1961
The Little Book of Colour: How to Use the Psychology of Colour to Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 3.81 — 902 ratings — published 2019
The White Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,416 ratings — published 2016
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 55 ratings — published
Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,431 ratings — published 2004
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 127 ratings — published 1999
The Day the Crayons Quit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 60,509 ratings — published 2013
The Primary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 320 ratings — published 1994
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,682 ratings — published 2011
Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 3.76 — 148 ratings — published
A Closer Look: Colour (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published 2000
The World According to Color: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,337 ratings — published 2022
Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 56 ratings — published
The Anatomy of Color: The Story of Heritage Paints and Pigments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.27 — 94 ratings — published 1966
The Designer's Dictionary of Color: Practical, example-filled guide to thirty key colors, their histories, and persuasive design uses. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.02 — 376 ratings — published 2017
Color Harmony for Artists: How to Transform Inspiration into Beautiful Watercolor Palettes and Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.08 — 231 ratings — published 2019
The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 785 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 106 ratings — published 2004
The Crayons' Book of Colors (My First Crayons)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,080 ratings — published 2016
Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.38 — 503 ratings — published 2018
The Day the Crayons Came Home (Crayons)
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avg rating 4.40 — 17,028 ratings — published 2015
Color Index XL: More than 1,100 New Palettes with CMYK and RGB Formulas for Designers and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2017
Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments (New Horizons)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.02 — 85 ratings — published 1999
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 333 ratings — published 2011
Mix It Up! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,654 ratings — published 2014
On Being Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,139 ratings — published 1975
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.20 — 120,193 ratings — published 1962
The Secondary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.35 — 112 ratings — published 1996
“Colour is to a brand what notes are to music.
No great musician is told he only has to use three notes to be recognized. No great painter is told to limit his colour palette. So why do we impose these limits on brands?”
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No great musician is told he only has to use three notes to be recognized. No great painter is told to limit his colour palette. So why do we impose these limits on brands?”
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“The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows”
― Lud-in-the-Mist
― Lud-in-the-Mist
