An amazing 17th-century book by an artist named A. Boogert was the Pantone Color Guide of its day, reports Colossal. With 800 pages of handwritten and hand-painted color samples and careful directions ...

Each year, since the turn of the millennium, word arrives from on high: Pantone, the self-described world's authority on color, announces its Color of the Year. On Thursday, Pantone declared "Mocha ...

Earlier this week Dutch medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel stumbled upon a gorgeously illustrated 1692 tome devoted to the art of mixing watercolors in an online database from the Bibliothèque ...

Once upon a time—even before there existed a system called Pantone—artists were obsessed with categorizing color. So much so that in 1692, one artist named A. Boogert—about whom not much seems to be ...

A soft, pinkish-orange hue called “Peach Fuzz” is Pantone’s pick for the 2024 color of the year, the company announced last week. Officially called “Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz,” the color is “velvety, ...

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