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The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 24,380 ratings — published 2016
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 74,390 ratings — published 2003
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 17,364 ratings — published 1963
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 62,169 ratings — published 2009
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,109 ratings — published 1810
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 281 ratings — published 2019
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 23,802 ratings — published 2010
Chromophobia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,349 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,022 ratings — published 2002
Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 42,749 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 — 3,041 ratings — published 1961
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 474 ratings — published 1814
Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 530 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 776,343 ratings — published 1982
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,934 ratings — published 2000
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 131 ratings — published 1993
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 263 ratings — published 2013
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 856 ratings — published 2008
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,923 ratings — published 2000
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,121 ratings — published 2005
Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 282 ratings — published 2000
配色事典―大正・昭和の色彩ノート: A Dictionary of Color Combinations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 725 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 4.31 — 842 ratings — published 1961
The Little Book of Colour: How to Use the Psychology of Colour to Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 941 ratings — published 2019
The White Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 42,606 ratings — published 2016
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 54 ratings — published
Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,462 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 — 61,065 ratings — published 2013
The Primary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 323 ratings — published 1994
What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.27 — 119 ratings — published
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,722 ratings — published 2011
Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 156 ratings — published
配色事典 応用編―大正・昭和の色彩と商品デザイン: A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.66 — 128 ratings — published 2020
A Closer Look: Colour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published 2000
The World According to Color: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,460 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)
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avg rating 4.26 — 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)
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avg rating 4.02 — 384 ratings — published 2017
Color Harmony for Artists: How to Transform Inspiration into Beautiful Watercolor Palettes and Paintings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 235 ratings — published 2019
The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 792 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 109 ratings — published 2004
The Crayons' Book of Colors (My First Crayons)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,093 ratings — published 2016
Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 512 ratings — published 2018
The Day the Crayons Came Home (Crayons)
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avg rating 4.40 — 17,116 ratings — published 2015
Color Index XL: More than 1,100 New Palettes with CMYK and RGB Formulas for Designers and Artists (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 33 ratings — published 2017
Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments (New Horizons)
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avg rating 4.01 — 85 ratings — published 1999
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 335 ratings — published 2011
Mix It Up! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,694 ratings — published 2014
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?”
― England, England
― England, England
