The Color of Things
6 min readFeb 22, 2020
By Carl Jennings
“Colors speak all languages.”
— Joseph Addison, Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination (1828)[1]
Sinoper, Falu, Gamboge and Watchet: A strange and alien language perhaps, but one that speaks to the myriad ways in which colors can reveal themselves. Most of us can see these colors quite easily, but we would be hard-pressed to identify or…