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Colour Books
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The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 21,702 ratings — published 2016
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 72,849 ratings — published 2003
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as colour)
avg rating 4.04 — 57,779 ratings — published 2009
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as colour)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,426 ratings — published 1971
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,085 ratings — published 1810
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as colour)
avg rating 4.42 — 271 ratings — published 2019
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 6 times as colour)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,391 ratings — published 2010
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
by (shelved 6 times as colour)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,942 ratings — published 2002
Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 41,667 ratings — published 2009
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,991 ratings — published 1961
Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.15 — 524 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 752,920 ratings — published 1982
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,898 ratings — published 2000
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 128 ratings — published 1993
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 3.34 — 260 ratings — published 2013
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as colour)
avg rating 4.10 — 813 ratings — published 2008
Chromophobia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,231 ratings — published 2000
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,793 ratings — published 2000
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,082 ratings — published 2005
Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 283 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 4.32 — 810 ratings — published 1961
The Little Book of Colour: How to Use the Psychology of Colour to Transform Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 3.80 — 853 ratings — published 2019
The White Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colour)
avg rating 3.81 — 35,907 ratings — published 2016
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 51 ratings — published
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 449 ratings — published 1814
Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,418 ratings — published 2004
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 127 ratings — published 1999
The Day the Crayons Quit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 59,765 ratings — published 2013
The Primary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 314 ratings — published 1994
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,671 ratings — published 2011
Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 3.77 — 142 ratings — published
A Closer Look: Colour (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published 2000
The World According to Color: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,215 ratings — published 2022
Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published
The Anatomy of Color: The Story of Heritage Paints and Pigments (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 94 ratings — published 1966
The Designer's Dictionary of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 368 ratings — published 2017
Color Harmony for Artists: How to Transform Inspiration into Beautiful Watercolor Palettes and Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.06 — 222 ratings — published 2019
The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 779 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 104 ratings — published 2004
The Crayons' Book of Colors (My First Crayons)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,063 ratings — published 2016
Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 496 ratings — published 2018
The Day the Crayons Came Home (Crayons)
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avg rating 4.40 — 16,911 ratings — published 2015
Color Index XL: More than 1,100 New Palettes with CMYK and RGB Formulas for Designers and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2017
Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments (New Horizons)
by (shelved 3 times as colour)
avg rating 4.00 — 83 ratings — published 1999
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 326 ratings — published 2011
Mix It Up! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,621 ratings — published 2014
On Being Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,062 ratings — published 1975
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 119,443 ratings — published 1962
The Secondary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 110 ratings — published 1996
“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”
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“The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows”
― Lud-in-the-Mist
― Lud-in-the-Mist
