There’s a very interesting visualization of color names over at Dolores Labs Blog. The idea is that they asked a large number of respondents (N = 237) to give names to various colors (10,000 in all). They then mapped those names to a color wheel and got what you see above.
It’s an interesting use of user-generated data to facilitate understanding. By surveying “real people,” the responses are not based on any kind of normative assumptions about color names, but rather on what people actually use to describe them. I did something similar with emotional valence for words for my own research…maybe I’ll blog about that some day.
In any case, check out the full post (including the data) over at
Dolores Labs Blog.
And make sure you check out the
color label explorer which lets you browse for different words.
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