Colours may be the same around the world, but the language in which they are described can have a significant impact on how they are perceived. In English, the most popular base colours are blue, pink ...

Do people view color differently based on language? This beautiful visualization by Muyueh Lee tries to get a handle on the semantics of color by using the Chinese and English versions of Wikipedia as ...

What’s that color above? If you’re English or American, your answer would probably be sky blue, or a light turquoise. But in Japanese it would be called mizu, which translates as “water”. The rest of ...

Don’t be red-faced next time someone asks you a question about English. We’re exploring words and phrases about colour – learn them all and your friends will be green with envy! In general, if we say ...

We have many idiomatic expressions involving the whole range of colours in English. In answering your question, Michal, we will have a look today at just three colours: red, white and blue (the ...