Colour Naming

Networks:

This study has been endorsed by the International Colour Association (AIC) through its Study Group on the Language of Colour.

• AIC Study Group on the Language of Colour
• AIC - International Colour Association
• The Society for Imaging Science and Technology
• Fogra Common Colour Appearance
• Netaudio London
• Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture, Goldsmiths
• Colour Group (Great Britain)
• Gruppo Del Colore - Associazione Italiana del Colore
• PRO COR Brazil
• Swedish Colour Centre Foundation – Svenskt Färgcentrum
• ColorLab: исследование антропогенной среды и городского пространства
• Horiuchi & Hirai Laboratory, Chiba University

• Jie Xu, Study Group on Colour Culture, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK

  Dr. Xueqing Zhang, Study Group on Colour Culture, College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• Beichen Yu, Colour Research in Urban Design, ESALA, The University of Edinburgh, UK

• Color in Context group (CIC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• In the Himba study (Dimitris Mylonas, Serge Caparos and Jules Davidoff, 2022), DM provided the experimental design and data analysis, SC collected the data, JD was the PI and provided the first draft and critical review. The study was mainly supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Grant SG171176. DM was also supported by the University College London (UCL) Computer Science—Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, Doctoral Training Grant: EP/M506448/1–1573073 and by the FY22 TIER 1 Seed Grant from Northeastern University, USA.

Crowdfunding Project:

In September 2016, we ran a successful Kickstarter project, entitled Colours of Babel, to upgrade our online experiment to run on all new devices, minimize security threats and maintain our online presence free without advertisements. We thank all our 96 supporters for helping us raise 112% of our funding goal. You can find below a colour-coded list with our most precious donors:

Ruby Donors:

• 'Φωνή' Κέντρο Αγωγής και Λόγου
• Dr Lindsay MacDonald, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, UCL
• Οικογένεια Μυλωνά (Ευάγγελος, Γεωργία, Ιωάννα και Αλέξανδρος)

Emerald Donors:

• Aspa Paspali, Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist

Sapphire Donors:

• Janet Best, Natific AG
• Dr Stavros Melemenidis, Stanford University
• Daniel Flück, Colblindor
• Martin Dittus, UCL

Publications/Presentations/Workshops:

1. True Colors - interview of Dimitris Mylonas by Despina Trivoli (2009). LiFO 179 pg.50-51, Athens, Greece, November 2009
2. Mylonas, D. (2009) A Colour Naming Investigation within Different Cultures, Oral Presentation, Digital Futures, Image Physics & Psychophysics, Institute of Physics, London, UK, November 2009
3. Mylonas, D. (2009) An Online Colour Naming Model, Oral Presentation, Printing and Graphics Science Group Student Conference, Institute of Physics, London, UK, December 2009
4. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2010) Locating Colour Names under different viewing conditions on the Net, Conf. CREATE, Gjøvik, Norway, June 2010
5. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2010) Online Colour Naming Experiment Using Munsell Samples, Proc. CGIV 2010, Joensuu, Finland, June 2010
6. MacDonald, L.W. and Mylonas, D. (2010) Edible Color Names, Proc. AIC 2010 Conf.on ‘Color and Food’, Mar del Plata, Argentina, October 2010
7. Mylonas, D.,(2010) Colour Naming Workshop: Likely Colour Names Card Game, Create Workshops, Bristol, UK, October 2010
8. Mylonas, D., MacDonald, L.W. and Wuerger S. (2010) Towards an Online Colour Naming Model, Proc. CIC 2010, San Antonio, US, November 2010
9. Mylonas, D.(2010), Oral Presentation, WD Wright Award, Online Colour Naming Experiment Using Munsell Samples, Colour Group GB, London, UK, December 2010
10. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2012) Colour naming for colour communication. In Colour Design: Theory and Applications, ed Best, J., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK
11. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2011) An Online Colour naming Workshop. EVA London Conference, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, London, UK, June 2011
12. Colour naming Eglantine by any other name - Johnson (2011) Economist, Colour naming experiment and Colournamer mentioned in The Economist, New York, July, 2011
13. Mylonas, D. (2011) Blue...and the subjective experience of colour (lecture-demo), Lost Property, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2011
14. Mylonas, D. (2012) Colour naming workshop on FIRE, FIRE - Community project, London, UK, March 2012
15. MacDonald, L., Paramei, G. and Mylonas D. (2012) Gender differences in colour naming. Conference Progress in Colour Studies 2012, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2012
16. Mylonas, D. (2012) Colour naming for colour communication. Public talk, Symposium on Colour for Business and the Professions, Colour Group (GB), City University, London, UK, November 2012
17. Mylonas, D., Stutters, J., Doval, V. and MacDonald, L. (2013) Colournamer - a synthetic observer for colour communication, AIC 2013 12th International Congress - Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, UK, July 2013
18. Mylonas, D., and MacDonald, L. (2014) Augmenting Basic Colour Terms in English, AISB-50 - Goldsmiths, London, UK, April 2014
19. MacDonald, L. and Mylonas, D. (2014) Gender Differences for Colour Naming in Spanish and English, AIC Interim Meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico, October 2014
20. Mylonas, D., Paramei, G. and MacDonald, L. (2014) Gender Differences in Colour Naming, In: Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), Colour Studies: A broad spectrum. 2014. xiv, 417 pp. (pp. 225–239), John Benjamins
21. Mylonas, D., and MacDonald, L. (2015) Augmenting Basic Colour Terms in English, Color Research and Application, Wiley, January 2015
22. Jacob Aron (2015) Lilac and turquoise are as basic as red and orange, New Scientist, Life, February 2015
23. Brooks Hays (2015) Study: Lilac and turquoise are universally recognized, United Press International, February 2015
24. Mylonas, D.(2015) Public talk: Colournamer - a synthetic observer for colour communication, Colour Group (GB) International Colour Day, London, UK, 21st March 2015
25. Mylonas, D., Purver, M., Sadrzadeh, M., MacDonald, L. and Griffin, L. (2015) The Use of English Colour Terms in Big Data, AIC Midterm Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, May 2015
26. Katemake,P., Mylonas, D. MacDonald, L., Prasithrathsint, A. (2015) Comparison Among Three Methods for Thai Colour Naming, AIC Midterm Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, May 2015
27. Грибер Юлия Александровна & Милонас Димитрис(2015) Картография цвета: эмпирический анализ цветонаименований русского языка, Человек и культура, October, 2015
28. Mylonas, D. (2015). The role of psychological primaries in cognitive colour spaces: a cross cultural colour naming study. Invited talk in Colour Vision Meeting 2015, Colour Group GB, London, UK.
29. MacDonald, L. (2016). Colour Naming: Linking Vision and Speech. Keynote Speech at 3rd International Conference 'Colour, Culture, Science'. Kraków, Poland.
30. Mylonas, D., Andrews, J., Griffin L.D. (2016). Variability in free colour naming across the full colour gamut. In AVA Christmas Meeting, London, UK.
31. Griffin L.D., Mylonas, D. (2016). Why so much talk about “red”? In AVA Christmas Meeting, London, UK.
32. Mylonas, D., MacDonald, L. (2017). Colour Naming for Colour Design. In Colour Design, ed Best, J. Elsevier
33. Mylonas D. (2017) Where our brain meets the universe. Invited talk at Chromophobia: Colour in Architecture. Design Museum, London, UK
34. Mylonas D. (2017) Features of GREEN colour categories across languages. Talk at The Colour Green meeting, Northern Chapter, Colour Group GB, Newcastle, UK.
35. Mylonas, D., MacDonald L., Griffin, L.D. (2017). Differences in Color Naming between British and American English Speakers. In 13th AIC Congress, South Korea.
36. Griber Y., Paramei G.V., Mylonas, D. (2017). Gender Differences in Russian Colour Naming. In 13th AIC Congress, South Korea.
37. Ulusoy B., Griffin L.D., Mylonas, D. (2017). Turkish Colour Naming on the Net. In 13th AIC Congress, South Korea.
38. Paramei G, Gibber Y., Mylonas D. (2017) An online colour naming experiment in Russian using Munsell colour samples, Color Research and Application, 43,3,358-374, DOI:10.1002/col.22190
39. Mylonas, D.(2017), Oral Presentation, WD Wright Award, Differences in Color Naming between British and American English Speakers, Colour Group GB, City University, London, UK, November 2017
40. Griber Y., Paramei G., Mylonas D. (2018) Objects as Culture -Specific Referents of Color Terms in Russian. Poster Presentation at the ISCC | AIC Munsell Centennial Color Symposium, June 10-15, Boston, MA, US.
41. Mylonas D. (2018) Colour naming brings people together. Invited workshop at the ISCC | AIC Munsell Centennial Color Symposium, June 10-15, Boston, MA, US.
42. Mylonas D. (2018) Colour naming within and across languages. Invited workshop at the ISCC | AIC Munsell Centennial Color Symposium, June 10-15, Boston, MA, US.
43. Griber Y., Paramei G.V., Mylonas, D. (2018). Edible colour names: Cross-cultural comparison of Russian and English. In AIC Interim Meeting, Oct 25-29, Lisbon, Portugal.
44. Griber Y., Paramei G., Mylonas D. (2018) Objects as Culture-Specific Referents of Color Terms in Russian. Color Research and Application,43,6,958-975, Wiley.
45. Mylonas D., Stockman A., Griffin L.D. (2018) Basic Colour Terms are Indispensable. In AVA 2018 Christmas Meeting, London, UK.
46. Mylonas D., Griffin L.D., Stockman A. (2019) Mapping Colour Names in LMS Cone Excitation Space. Invited talk at Colour Vision Meeting 2019, Colour Group GB, City University, London, UK.
47. Griffin L.D., Mylonas, D. (2019). Categorical colour geometry. PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216296. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0216296
48. Mylonas D., Griffin L.D., Stockman A. (2019) Mapping Colour Names in Cone Excitation Space. 25th Symposium, ICVS, 5-9 July, Riga, Latvia.
49. Mylonas D., Griffin L.D.(2020) Coherence of achromatic, primary and basic classes of colour categories. Vision Research 175:14-22, DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.06.001
50. Mylonas D., (2020) Online versus Offline Colour Naming Experiments. London Imaging Meeting, October, London, UK.
51. Mylonas D., (2020) Crowdsourcing of Multilingual Color Names. In Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology, Springer.
52. Mylonas D., (2021) Synonyms for colour names within and across languages. Colour & Potery Symposium 2021, 19-22 March, London, UK.
53. Mylonas D., Koliousis A., Uusküla M. (2021) Synonymy in the language of colour. In 14th AIC Congress,30 August-3 September, Milan, Italy.
54. Griber Y., Mylonas D, Paramei G. (2021) Age-related differences in richness and diversity of Russian color lexicon. In 14th AIC Congress,30 August-3 September, Milan, Italy.
55. Frison G., Aceto M., Agostino A., Mylonas D., Calatroni A. (2021) Spectrographic analysis of the colourants of cultural items: from a qualitative to a semi- quantitative data treatment through BCTs. In 14th AIC Congress,30 August-3 September, Milan, Italy.
56. Griber Y., Mylonas, D., Paramei, G. (2021). Intergenerational differences in Russian color naming in the globalized era: Linguistic analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00943-2
57. Mylonas, D., Caparos, S., & Davidoff, J. (2022). Augmenting a colour lexicon. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01045-3
58. Mylonas D. & Koliousis A.(2022) From Cones to Words: Augmenting colour communication in context. Detroit Colour Council, 24 May, Detroit, US.
59. Mylonas D.(2022) Augmenting colour communication in context. Summer of Colour US Tour 2022, New College of Optometry & Northeastern, 8-10 June, Boston, MA, US.
60. Mylonas D.(2022) Augmenting colour communication within and across languages. Summer of Colour US Tour 2022, UC Davis & UC Berkeley, 13-16 June, CA, US.
61. Mylonas D., Stockman A., Koliousis A., Stutters J., Eskew R. (2022) The indispensability of olive green (λαδί) in the Greek colour lexicon. 26th Symposium, ICVS, 1-5 July, Heraklion, Greece.
62. Mylonas D.(2022) Augmenting colour communication in context (Keynote). Fogra Colour Management Symposium 2022, 6-8 July, Munich, Germany.
63. Mylonas D., Norelli, M.F., & Davidoff, J. (2022) Cultural differences in the cognitive aspects of colour geometry. Colour & AI Symposium in Wittgenstein and AI, 31 July, London, UK.
64. Mylonas D.(2022) Augmenting colour communication within and across languages. Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, 9 November, Giessen, Germany.
65. Mylonas D.(2023) Colour naming brings people together. Human Sensory Experiences Symposium, University of Sussex, 20 April, Brighton, UK.
66. Mylonas D.(2023) Colour naming in humanity centred design. Leeds Colour Conference 2023, 4 July, Leeds, UK.
67. Mylonas D.(2023) Multilingual networks of colour synonyms. Color Workshop 2023, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, 17 July, Rauischholzhausen Castle, Germany.
68. Norelli N.F., Koliousis A., Stockman A., Eskew R.T., Mylonas D.(2023) The Use of colour names over repeated trials. XVIII Color Conference, 16 September, Lecco, Italy
69. Mylonas D.(2023) Color Naming Within and Across Languages. Short course at CIC31 2023, 13 November, Paris, France.
70. Mylonas D., Koliousis A., Stutters J., Katemake P., Stockman A., Eskew R.T.(2023) Augmenting colour communication in English, Greek and Thai. AIC2023 15th Congress, 28 November, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
71. Mylonas D.(2023) Cones to Words: Locating colour names in cone excitation space. 2023 Colour and Vision Science and Imaging Forum, 4 December, Hangzhou, China.
72. Mylonas D.(2024) Cones to Words: Augmenting colour communication within and across languages. VPR Lab, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London, UK.