Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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The basic colour term theory is good. But it doesn't really go into the weirdness of colour, or how history can shape how people think of colour, or why orange is a LIE. So, here's a bit more colour linguistics!

Vox's video on basic colour term theory: youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg

Yele language: jstor.org/stable/43103224
Evolution from saturation to hue: jstor.org/stable/2743839, also Color and Categories in Thought and Language, C. L. Hardin, 1997
English gaining hue words: jstor.org/stable/43102893
Medieval color: medievalists.net/2018/02/color-middle-ages/#:~:text=The%20Middle%20Color,extremes%20of%20white%20and%20black.
Newton: huevaluechroma.com/071.php

+ The Semantics of Color, C. P. Biggam, 2012


River Fire by Kevin MacLeod
Link: filmmusic.io/song/4294-river-fire
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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