Benjamin Moore's “Off White Collection” of paint colors has 152 shades of creamy neutrals. Cosmetics firm M.A.C. offers 200 named colors of lipstick, nearly all of them reddish.

It’s all very physical, very real. According to the Colour Literacy Project, from which Salon learned to bust all of the above color myths, what we learn about color is mostly wrong.

The rainbow has become an easily recognizable symbol for the LGBTQ+ community in large part due to the Pride Flag (also known as the Rainbow Flag). It all began in 1978, when Gilbert Baker created ...

Artist Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag as a symbol of pride for the LGBTQ community in the 1970s. Here’s why he chose the colors and what they mean.

Since its creation in 1978, the Rainbow Pride Flag has become a universal symbol for the LGBTQ community. While the flag's image is well-recognized, its history may not be as well-known.

And he set out the colours of the rainbow in an order schoolchildren still memorize today: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. That’s seven colours.

The Progress Pride flag is a reimagined take on the traditional pride flag. It has the rainbow flag’s six colors but layers a black, brown, blue, pink and white stripe in a chevron design.