This clever color wheel reveals how different languages explain the color spectrum, whether in three words or more than 60 words. ![]()
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Data interpreter/designer Terrence Fradet created this lovely interpretation of colors through the filter of language. At the Fathom Information Design site, he has a more expansive history on color and language, but this is a short version.
Some languages explain the entire color spectrum in two or three words--eschewing everything except maybe "light" or "dark"--while others might classify more than 60 relatively obscure colors. The World Color Survey is a global database of color names and interpretations, and Fradet mined this data for his infographic. The results are grouped by geographic area and show the most-used words nearest to the center, reaching out to the most obscure variations at the end.
Read more about it at Fathom.
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