Storied Colors: named colors with documented histories.
SKIP TO CONTENT STORIED · COLORS BROWSE TODAY ABOUT SEARCH TODAY'S COLOR Wednesday, 11th November Cadmium Red NO. 031 FIRST DOCUMENTED 1907 SOURCE CdS·CdSe ORIGIN Germany ERA 1907 to present HEX #E30022 READ TODAY'S ENTRY RESTRICTED (CDS·CDSE) THE COLOR INDEX AN ONGOING INDEX, EST. 2026 One color a day, traced to the people who made it and what it cost them. Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail: where it was first ground, when it was banned, what replaced it. I don't invent provenance, and I don't cut the unflattering parts. New entries are added as they clear fact-checking, not on a fixed schedule. Older entries are amended as conservation laboratories publish corrections. 262 ENTRIES INDEXED 1,347 CITATIONS ON FILE THIS WEEK'S SPECIMENS EDITOR'S PICKS · 9TH TO 15TH NOVEMBER From the desk of the editor PLATE 117 NO. 117 C. 400 BCE Lead White SYNTHETIC · WARM · SATURATED The white of Vermeer's pearl earring and of the Greek and Roman face cosmetic, made by corroding lead over vinegar fumes, and the only white in European easel painting until the nineteenth century. READ THE STORY PLATE 118 NO. 118 C. 1300 Lead-Tin Yellow SYNTHETIC · WARM · SATURATED The cool yellow of Vermeer and Caravaggio, whose recipe was lost around 1750 and only rediscovered in a Munich museum laboratory in 1941. READ THE STORY PLATE 128 NO. 128 C. 1500 BCE Madder PLANT · WARM · DARK The root dye that coloured Pompeii's walls, Ottoman fezzes and British redcoat uniforms, finally synthesised in 1869 and ending a 3000-year industry overnight. READ THE STORY RECENT ACQUISITIONS SIX NEWEST OF 262 ENTRIES NO. 264 4TH C. BCE Lac #702246 NO. 263 1809 Chrome Orange #E63401 NO. 262 BY 1830 Iodine Scarlet #E62A1F NO. 261 1771 Picric Acid #D6DF3F NO. 260 1775 Quercitron #CFA43A NO. 259 12TH CENTURY Turnsole #582751 THE COLLECTION AT A GLANCE BROWSE ALL 262 ENTRIES 096 108 127 184 236 191 154 100 255 059 195 204 225 068 150 201 089 061 030 160 041 230 241 138 099 139 152 126 132 07Storied Colors
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