Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors
摘要
这是一个名为“Storied Colors”的持续更新色彩索引网站，按条目整理各种历史或现代颜色。每个颜色以编号和时期呈现，并附带材料来源与简短标签（如矿物/植物/动物、暖色/冷色、明暗等），以及相关历史背景说明，例如帝王专用的“Imperial Yellow”、以动物工艺制成的“Indian Yellow”、以及与殖民种植史相关的“Indigo”。页面还列出“Recent Acquisitions”，展示最新加入的颜色条目及其年份或时代来源与色值信息。整体结构类似档案馆式的色彩编目，同时强调颜色背后的生产方式与历史语境。
荐读理由
把条目按编号、时间、材料属性与历史叙事分层组织的方式，可用于设计具备结构化字段与故事层的内容型产品或知识库信息模型
原文
The Color Index An ongoing index, est. 2026
One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison.
This Week’s Specimens Curator’s notes · 15th to 21st June
From the desk of the curator
Plate 093
No. 093 Tang dynasty
Imperial Yellow
Mineral · Warm · Saturated
The exclusive yellow of Chinese emperors from the Tang dynasty onward, forbidden by sumptuary law to anyone outside the imperial family.
Plate 097
No. 097 c. 1600
Indian Yellow
Animal · Warm · Dark
A glowing yellow made in Bengal from the urine of cows fed only mango leaves, reportedly outlawed for animal cruelty around 1908.
Plate 098
No. 098 c. 2000 BCE
Indigo
Plant · Cool · Dark
The plant-vat blue of denim, Tuareg robes, and Japanese samurai jackets, whose colonial plantation history triggered the 1859 Bengal Indigo Revolt.
Recent Acquisitions Six newest of 252 entries
No. 253 1936
Uranium Red
#D7350F
No. 252 c. 1145
Chartres Blue
#1F3F8E
No. 251 2016
Pinkest Pink
#FF1493
No. 250 1834
Zinc White
#FAFAFA
No. 249 2009
YInMn Blue
#2E5090
No. 248 Palaeolithic
Yellow Ochre
#CB9D06
The Collection at a Glance Browse all 252 →
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