Colour stories

Primary colours (yellow, red and blue) are colours that you cannot create by mixing other colours with each other. ...

In the art of painting cobalt is mainly known as a colour blue. The pigment that was traditionally extracted from a...

Carmine has been used for more than 2000 years in fabrics and cosmetics. In the 18th century pigments in lacquered ...

Asphalt, also referred to as bitumen, is a typical example of a colour of which the historical name has remained, b...