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.

Cosmetics firm M.A.C. offers 200 named colors of lipstick, nearly all of them reddish. While the eye can see fine distinctions, it’s hard to remember a color without a name.

The rainbow really fits that, in terms of: we’re all the colors, and all the genders and all the races,” he later told Time magazine in 2015. “It’s a natural flag; the rainbow is in the ...

We might be told that color has something to do with light, or even be shown a prism, through which light refracts to produce a rainbow. This is true, but the human brain and visual system can ...