Blue may be a universally beloved color for interiors, but it encompasses a vast number of different hues and tones, and that includes the highly complex, hotly-debated, and hard-to-define shade, ...

Catherine McKinley is the author of Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World. You probably take the blue in your favorite jeans or denim bean bag chair for granted now, but it was once ...

Certain blues, like the inky, moody shade that is indigo, always are on the design radar. They embody, much like bluejeans, a comfort level associated with basic black. It is a surprisingly neutral ...

Late second or early first century mosaic likely depicting a murex shell; from Rome, and now in Centrale Montemartini (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Perhaps no other color in history has been ...