# The Secret Lives of Colour **Author:** Kassia St Clair **Published:** 2016 **Genre:** **Keywords:** --- > [!tableofcontents]- Table of Contents > - Preface > - Color vision: How we see > - Simple arithmetic: On light > - Building the palette: Artists and their pigments > - Vintage paint charts: Mapping color > - Chromophilia, chromophobia: Politics of color > - Colorful language: Do words shape the shades we see? > - White > - Lead white > - Ivory > - Silver > - Whitewash > - Isabelline > - Chalk > - Beige > - Yellow > - Blonde > - Lead-tin yellow > - Indian yellow > - Acid yellow > - Naples yellow > - Chrome yellow > - Gamboge > - Orpiment > - Imperial yellow > - Gold > - Orange > - Dutch orange > - Saffron > - Amber > - Ginger > - Minium > - Nude > - Pink > - Baker-Miller pink > - Mountbatten pink > - Puce > - Fuchsia > - Shocking pink > - Fluorescent pink > - Amaranth > - Red > - Scarlet > - Cochineal > - Vermilion > - Rosso corsa > - Hematite > - Madder > - Dragon's blood > - Purple > - Tyrian purple > - Archil > - Magenta > - Mauve > - Heliotrope > - Violet > - Blue > - Ultramarine > - Cobalt > - Indigo > - Prussian blue > - Egyptian blue > - Woad > - Electric blue > - Cerulean > - Green > - Verdigris > - Absinthe > - Emerald > - Kelly green > - Scheele's green > - Terre verte > - Avocado > - Celadon > - Brown > - Khaki > - Buff > - Fallow > - Russet > - Sepia > - Umber > - Mummy > - Taupe > - Black > - Kohl > - Payne's gray > - Obsidian > - Ink > - Charcoal > - Jet > - Melanin > - Pitch black > - Glossary of other interesting colours > - Notes > - Bibliopgraphy and suggested further readings > - Acknowledgement > - Index ## Notes ### Preface ### White ### Yellow ### Orange ### Pink ### Red ### Purple ### Blue ### Green - [[Scheele’s Green]] - [[Scheele's Green may have contributed to Napolean's death]] ### Brown - [[Mummy brown]] ### Black