Cymbolism lets you vote on the color you most associate with a given word, giving designers data on which colors best convey feelings. What color is the word “music?” How about the colors of words ...

This segment discusses the importance of selecting rich and specific vocabulary to be able to best communicate ideas. Students analyze how language functions in different contexts. Students determine ...

Lots of fancy color words come from flowers or fruits: violet, periwinkle, lavender, lilac, olive, eggplant, pumpkin, and peach, to name a few. In English, pink used to refer exclusively to a flower ...

Languages tend to divide the "warm" part of the color spectrum into more color words, such as orange, yellow, and red, compared to the "cooler" regions, which include blue and green, cognitive ...

It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like "vermilion" and "chartreuse," were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a ...

You can use Word, the text editor that comes with the Microsoft Office software suite, in your small business to create complex documents and insert pie charts that visually represent your data. You ...

People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: ...

Q: I have text in a Word document that has been formatted by someone else. I want to use Find and Replace to change the color throughout, but I don't know how to specify the custom color in the Find ...

In some ways, colors are the ultimate example of language's power. The earliest humans didn't have words for colors. They had words for objects and actions, and it took tens of thousands of years for ...