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For some people, music has a colour, letters have a hue, and Tuesday is green. What synaesthesia reveals about how colour binds to the other senses, in everyone.
How staring at a colour fatigues the cones that detect it, leaving the opponent channel unmasked, and why surgeons wear blue-green scrubs.
How surrounding colour changes the appearance of an enclosed colour, from Chevreul's tapestry workshops to Albers' paper squares to the produce aisle.
How the brain rewrites what the eye receives, maintaining stable colour perception as illumination shifts from noon to golden hour.
When two surfaces match under one light and fall apart under another, and why specifying illuminant matters as much as specifying hue.
Why even spacing on a colour wheel is a teaching fiction, and what perceptual spaces such as Munsell and CIELAB actually describe.
The warmth and coolness of colour, and how contrast brings form to light.
An exploration of the three traits that define every colour: hue, value, and chroma. The axes of perception.