Color (disambiguation)
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Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...

is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc.

Color or colour may also refer to:

Science

  • Color vision
    Color vision
    Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit...

    , the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect or emit
  • Color charge
    Color charge
    In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics . Color charge has analogies with the notion of electric charge of particles, but because of the mathematical complications of QCD,...

    , in particle physics, a property of quarks and gluons
  • Color index
    Color index
    In astronomy, the color index is a simple numerical expression that determines the color of an object, which in the case of a star gives its temperature...

    , in astronomy, a simple numerical expression that determines the color of an object
  • Primary color
    Primary color
    Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three primary colors are usually used, since human color vision is trichromatic....

    , a color belonging to a set of three that can be combined to make a gamut of colors
  • Colorimetry
    Colorimetry
    Colorimetry is "the science and technology used to quantify and describe physically the human color perception."It is similar to spectrophotometry, but is distinguished by its interest in reducing spectra to the physical correlates of color perception, most often the CIE 1931 XYZ color space...

    , the mathematical science of the measurement and perception of color
  • Animal colouration
    Animal colouration
    Animal coloration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. The mechanisms for colour production in animals include pigments, chromatophores, structural coloration, and bioluminescence....

    • "Coloured", a term used in the British Isles to describe the coat of a Pinto horse
      Pinto horse
      A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. The distinction between "pinto" and "solid" can be tenuous, as so-called "solid" horses frequently have areas of white hair. Various cultures throughout history appear to have selectively bred for pinto...

  • Color temperature
    Color temperature
    Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, and other fields. The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of...

    , the temperature of a radiating black body corresponding to a given color of light
  • Colors of noise
    Colors of noise
    While noise is by definition derived from a random signal, it can have different characteristic statistical properties corresponding to different mappings from a source of randomness to the concrete noise. Spectral density is such a property, which can be used to distinguish different types of noise...

    , the descriptions of noises based on the shape of their spectral densities
  • Biological pigment
    Biological pigment
    Biological pigments, also known simply as pigments or biochromes are substances produced by living organisms that have a color resulting from selective color absorption. Biological pigments include plant pigments and flower pigments...

    s, colored substances in living organisms
  • Pigment
    Pigment
    A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light.Many materials selectively absorb...

    , solid colored particles, used in paints

Society and politics

  • Terms referring to skin color, ethnicity, or race
    • Colored
      Colored
      Colored is a term once widely used in the United States to describe black people and Native Americans...

       (U.S.)
    • Coloured
      Coloured
      In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers to an heterogenous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique,...

       (UK, South Africa)
    • Person of color
      Person of color
      Person of color is a term used, primarily in the United States, to describe all people who are not white. The term is meant to be inclusive among non-white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism...

       (primarily U.S.)
    • Human skin color
      Human skin color
      Human skin color is primarily due to the presence of melanin in the skin. Skin color ranges from almost black to white with a pinkish tinge due to blood vessels underneath. Variation in natural skin color is mainly due to genetics, although the evolutionary causes are not completely certain...

      , the literal color of a human being's skin
    • Race (classification of humans), as defined when conflated with skin color
  • Color (law)
    Color (law)
    In U.S. law, the term color of denotes the “mere semblance of legal right”, the “pretense or appearance of” right; hence, an action done under color of law colors the law to the circumstance, yet said apparently legal action contravenes the law....

     (or color of law), a legal term meaning "pretense or appearance of" some right
  • Colors (motorcycling)
    Colors (motorcycling)
    Colors are the insignia, or "patches", worn by motorcycle club members on cut-offs to identify membership of their club and territorial location. Club patches have been worn by many different groups but, since the 1960s, have become largely synonymous with Outlaw bikers...

    , motorcycling club insignia
  • Colours, standards and guidons
    Colours, standards and guidons
    In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards or Guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago...

    , military flags and related ceremonies
  • Gang colors
    Gang colors
    Gang colors are the types or color of clothing, or insignia that are worn by gang members to identify each other. Tattoos may also come under the category of gang colors....

    , colors or insignia worn by gang members
  • Political colour
    Political colour
    Certain political parties or positions have become associated with different colours at different times.-Colours:*Black is primarily associated with anarchism and fascism ....

    , colors associated with a political party or ideology
  • Regimental colour, a flag carried or maintained by British Army and Commonwealth infantry regiments or battalions
  • College Colours, a form of recognition for sporting prowess at a university; known in many places as a Blue

Visual art

  • Color (software)
    Color (software)
    Color was a professional color grading software application produced by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. It is one of the major applications included as part of Apple's Final Cut Studio 3 video production suite...

    , a color-grading application for Apple's Final Cut Studio video production suite
  • Color commentary, or simply color, in a sporting event broadcast, supplemental information offered between play-by-play calls
  • Color photography
    Color photography
    Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase...

  • Color theory
    Color theory
    In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combinations. Although color theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , a tradition of "colory theory"...

    , the art of color mixing and the visual impact of color combinations
  • Color, in typography, the overall density and balance between white space and print in a page layout
  • Color wheel
    Color wheel
    A color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle that shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc....

     or color circle, a logical arrangement of colors around a circle for artistic or scientific purposes

Entertainment

  • Color (manga)
    Color (manga)
    is a Japanese manga anthology written and illustrated by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki. Color was serialized in Dear+, a magazine known for its romantic and non-explicit boys love manga published by Shinshokan, and a tankōbon collecting the chapters released in February 1999. Color is licensed in North...

    , a Japanese manga
  • Colors (film)
    Colors (film)
    Colors is a 1988 police procedural crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. The story takes place in South Central Los Angeles, and is about Bob Hodges , an experienced LAPD Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums Police Officer III, and his rookie partner,...

    , a 1988 film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
  • Colours (film), an Indian Malayalam film
  • Colors (magazine), a multilingual quarterly magazine
  • Colors (video game)
    Colors (video game)
    Colors is a Gizmondo game that uses the console's GPS system to allow the player to play in the area where the player is located in real life, in the game. Colors was intended to be the world’s first GPS video game, but due to Gizmondo’s bankruptcy, it was never officially released.There was a...

    , a cancelled video game for the Gizmondo GPS console
  • Colours TV
    CoLours TV
    Colours TV was a multicultural American TV network produced by the non-profit organization Black Star Communications. Programs focused on the cultural and educational issues of the Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Native American communities. Some examples of programming included video...

    , an American television channel
  • Colors (TV channel), an Indian television channel
  • Colors!
    Colors!
    Colors! is a digital painting application for the Nintendo DS, iPhone and iPod Touch. It was voted the most popular homebrew application on the Nintendo DS by readers of the R4 for DS blog. -History:...

    , a Nintendo DS homebrew program
  • Sonic Colors
    Sonic Colors
    is a 2010 platforming game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It was first announced on May 26, 2010, in a press release by Sega for Italy, and it included a teaser trailer...

    , a video game from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

Music

  • Tone color refers to timbre
    Timbre
    In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, such as string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the...

  • Two meanings in medieval music theory
    • Color, sequence of repeated notes in the cantus firmus tenor of a composition, in isorhythm
      Isorhythm
      Isorhythm is a musical technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern.-Detail:...

    • Coloration, a technique of marking notes, in mensural notation
      Mensural notation
      Mensural notation is the musical notation system which was used in European music from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600."Mensural" refers to the ability of this system to notate complex rhythms with great exactness and flexibility...


Albums

  • Color (album)
    Color (album)
    Color is the third studio album by Japanese group NEWS, released on November 19, 2008. The album was released in a limited edition and regular edition. The regular edition comes with a bonus track...

    , by NEWS
  • Colour (album)
    Colour (album)
    Colour, released in 2008, is the third full-length album by British DJ and electronic dance music composer Andy Hunter°. It is the follow-up to his second album Life, as well has his longest album to date; However, Exodus is over 3 minutes longer, so if the album was reissued on two discs, it would...

    , by Andy Hunter°
  • Colours (Adam F album)
    Colours (Adam F album)
    Colours, released in 1997 by Positiva, is an album by the drum and bass artist Adam F.-Track listing:#"Intro" – 1:03#"73" - 1:28#"Metropolis" - 6:31#"Music In My Mind " - 5:18#"Jaxx" - 5:08#"Mother Earth" - 5:03...

  • Colours (Baccara album)
    Colours (Baccara album)
    Colours is the third studio album by Spanish duo Baccara, first released on label RCA-Victor in West Germany in 1979. It contains European single releases "Body Talk"/"By 1999" and "Ay Ay Sailor"...

  • Colors (Between the Buried and Me album)
    Colors (Between the Buried and Me album)
    Colors is the fourth album by American heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me, released on September 18, 2007 through Victory Records. The group brought out many different influences within the structure of the songs featured on the album....

    • Colors Live, a live album and video by Between the Buried and Me
  • Four Donovan albums, named after his song
    • Colours (1972 album)
      Colours (1972 album)
      Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom in June 1972 and did not chart.-History:In 1971, Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings were sold to Hallmark Records...

    • Colours (1987 album)
      Colours (1987 album)
      Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom in October 1987 and did not chart...

    • Colours (1991 album)
      Colours (1991 album)
      Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in 1991.-History:...

    • Colours: Live in Concert, 2001 (a repackaged version of Rising
      Rising (Donovan album)
      Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 . The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom...

      )
  • Colours (Eloy album)
    Colours (Eloy album)
    -Side Two:# "Child Migration" – 7:23# "Gallery" – 3:08# "Silhouette" – 6:57# "Sunset" – 3:15Bonus tracks on 2005 remaster*"Wings Of Vision" – 4:14*"Silhouette " – 3:30-Personnel:* Klaus-Peter Matziol — Bass, Vocals...

  • Colours (Mark Norman album)
    Colours (Mark Norman album)
    - Credits :* Composer, Producer, Writer: Mark de Jong & Norman Lenden* Artwork and Design By: Jeroen Vos* Mastered By: Pieter De Wagter* Photography: Rick van der Wal- Publishers :* "Colour My Eyes" and "Be With U" are published by D.Y.M...

  • Colours (Michael Learns to Rock album)
  • Colours (Nadia Oh album)
    Colours (Nadia Oh album)
    Colours is the second album by British recording artist Nadia Oh. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 8 May 2011 by Tiger Trax Records. Numerous viral videos have been released through the video-sharing website YouTube to promote the album...

  • Colours (Resurrection Band album)
    Colours (Resurrection Band album)
    Colours is the third full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1980.-Recording history:Colours was Resurrection Band's first release for Christian label Light Records, which had up to this time been known as the primary record label for Andrae Crouch and...

  • Colours (Stone album)
    Colours (Stone album)
    -Personnel:* Janne Joutsenniemi – Bass guitar, Vocals* Nirri Niiranen – Guitar* Roope Latvala – Guitar* Pekka Kasari – Drums-Additional Personnel:* Janne Kannas violin on "White Worms"* Miika Uuksulainen cello on "White Worms"...

  • Colors (Avishai Cohen album), by Avishai Cohen
  • Colors (Raul de Souza album), by Raul de Souza
    Raul de Souza
    Raul de Souza is a renowned trombonist who has recorded with Sergio Mendez, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento, Sonny Rollins, Cal Tjader and the jazz/fusion band Caldera....

  • Colors, by Ken Nordine
    Ken Nordine
    Ken Nordine is an American voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost...

  • Colors, by Mari Hamada
    Mari Hamada
    is a Japanese female rock singer, songwriter and producer.- Biography :Mari Hamada started her professional singing career in 1983 as a heavy metal idol, produced by the late Munetaka Higuchi . Her records were successful in the Japanese rock market...


Songs

  • "Colors" (Crossfade song)
  • "Colors" (Hikaru Utada song)
    Colors (Hikaru Utada song)
    "Colors" is Hikaru Utada's 12th Japanese-language single , and is the only single she released in 2003. It was released on January 29, 2003 and debuted at #1 on the Oricon charts with 437,903 copies sold in the first week, and became her fifth single to perform the rare two-consecutive weeks at...

  • "Colors" (Ice-T song)
    Colors (Ice-T song)
    "Colors" is a song by Ice-T, issued as the title track for the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The song was released as a single in 1988. In 2008, it was named the 19th greatest hip-hop song of all time by VH1.-Charts:...

    , from the 1988 film of the same title
  • "Colors", a song by Flow
    Flow (band)
    Flow is a Japanese rock band, that formed in 1998 and signed on to Sony Music Japan's Ki/oon Records label. Flow is a five-piece band made up of two vocalists, a drummer, a bassist and a guitarist...

  • "Colors", a song by Iced Earth from Iced Earth
    Iced Earth (album)
    Iced Earth is the eponymous debut album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth. It was released in November 1990 internationally and February 1991 in North America. The original release of this album had three different covers . This album was Mike McGill's only album with Iced Earth, as well as...

  • "Colors", a song by Morandi
    Morandi (band)
    -Studio albums:-Singles:The single "Angels" sold 1.45 million copies in Russia and went 7x platinum as ring-back tone and gold as realtone. The single "Save me" went 2x platinum with 400,000 copies sold...

  • "Colors", a song by The Rocket Summer from Do You Feel
    Do You Feel
    Do You Feel is The Rocket Summer's third full-length album, released on July 17, 2007 through Island Records. On this album, the band uses a more diverse instrumentation, including saxophone....

  • "Colors 2007 (Reggae Remix)", a song by Sean Kingston from Sean Kingston
    Sean Kingston (album)
    Sean Kingston is the self-titled eponymous debut album by Sean Kingston, released on July 31, 2007. The album was produced by J. R. Rotem. Sean Kingston wrote the lyrics with help from Evan Bogart. Kingston has claimed his lyrics are totally representative of his personal life...

  • "Colours" (Donovan song)
  • "Colours" (Calvin Harris song)
  • "Colours", a song by Hot Chip from The Warning
    The Warning (Hot Chip album)
    The Warning is the second full-length release from the British electronic indie pop band Hot Chip. The album was released in the UK on 22 May 2006 by EMI and in the United States on 3 June 2006 by Astralwerks...

  • "Colours", a song by Phil Collins from ...But Seriously
    ...But Seriously
    -Instrumental contributions:*Phil Collins — keyboards, drums, percussion, tambourine, vocals*Nathan East — bass guitar*Daryl Stuermer — guitar*Dominic Miller — guitar*The Phoenix Horns:**Don Myrick — saxophone...

  • "Colours", a song by The Prodigy from Invaders Must Die
    Invaders Must Die
    Invaders Must Die is the fifth studio album by English electronica group The Prodigy. The album was released on 18 February 2009 on the band's new label Take Me to the Hospital, and was distributed by Cooking Vinyl....

  • "Colours", a song by The Sisters of Mercy from Floodland
    Floodland
    Floodland is the second album by the British band The Sisters of Mercy, which was released in 1987 and marked their commercial break-through.-Break-up of the original band:...

  • "Colour", a song by Seal from Human Being
    Human Being (album)
    Human Being is the third album by Seal. It was released in 1998 as a tribute to the murdered rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.Human Being received mixed reviews ranging from being panned for its overtly dark and moody feel to being described in terms such as "pop perfection." The album...


Other uses

  • Colours (solitaire)
    Colours (solitaire)
    Colours is a solitaire card game which is played using a deck of playing cards. Its gameplay puts it on the same family as Sir Tommy, Strategy, and Calculation...

    , a card game
  • Color code (disambiguation), multiple meanings
  • Food coloring
    Food coloring
    Food coloring is a substance, liquid or powder, that is added to food or drink to change its color. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking...

    , any substance added to food to change its color
  • Color (finance), in mathematical finance, a characteristic of a derivative
  • iPod Color or iPod Photo, a portable media player


See also

  • List of colors
  • List of all pages beginning with Color
  • List of all pages beginning with Colour
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