Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast

A reflection on teaching primary color concepts; thoughts on persuasion and the Pantone Color of the Year. Resources:Aristotle, On Sense and the Sensible, MIT websiteDa Vinci, A Treatise on Painting, e-book websiteOgden Rood, Modern Chromatics, Internet Archive, websiteBerlin and Kay, Basic Color Terms, Wikipedia (Search UC Irvine for PDF)Pantone websiteDavid Batchelor, Chromophobia, University of Chicago Press, websiteMitchell Johnson on Color, Albers versus Itten, websiteJenn White, The enduring legacy of Jane Austen, WAMU / NPR, 1A, ListenJane Austen, Persuasion, 2007, IMBD websiteSend us a textSupport the show

An episode devoted to the color yellow.Resources:The St. Olaf ChoirLooney Tunes: Elmer Fudd - Kill the WabbitDay Glo CompanyDavid Briggs. Beyond Colour Theory: Understanding and Applying Colour, National Art School, Sydney, Australia, Online course Lauren Welbourne. Why we see things differently in winter compared with summer, Phys Org, Aug. 5, 2015Lauren Welbourne, et al. Human colour perception changes between seasons, Current Biology, Aug. 3, 2015Mike Webster. Environmental Influences on Color Vision, July 3, 2020Carl Orff: Carmina BuranaCold Play: YellowSend us a textSupport the show

A reflection on the past 4 years of the podcast.Matthew Midwood - WebsiteEd Charbonneau - WebsiteShedd Aquarium, Chicago, USA - WebsiteThomas Young - Bakerian Lecture, January 1, 1802, page 20Barry B. Lee. 2008. The evolution of concepts of color vision. Neurociencias.David Witt - Colormxr color mixing toolInternational Colour Association - AIC 2025 Taipei: Color for FutureColour Society of Australia - Colour Matrix Sydney 2025Send us a textSupport the show

More background on competing histories of color harmony, and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2.Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebookGoethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Project Gutenberg ebookSchopenhauer's On Vision and Colors, 1816, AbeBooksSpinal Tap, Jazz Odyssey, 1984Send us a text

Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perceptionColour Literacy Project: ResourcesScience How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was PinkMartin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): CyanometerColor categories in thought and language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press, New York: 1997Encyclopedia of Color Science and technology (UC Irvine): World Color SurveySpace.com: ParsecSend us a text