Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, green, etc.
Color or colour may also refer to:
Science
edit- Color charge, in particle physics, a property of quarks and gluons
- Color index, in astronomy, a simple numerical expression that determines the color of an object
- Color temperature, the temperature of a radiating black body corresponding to a given color of light
- Color vision, the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on light wavelength
- Colorimetry, the mathematical science of the measurement and perception of color
- Colors of noise, the descriptions of noises based on the shape of their spectral densities
- Dye, a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied
- Food coloring, any substance added to food to change its color
- Pigment, solid colored particles, used in paints
- Biological pigment, colored substances in living organisms
- Primary color, a color belonging to a set of three that can be combined to make a gamut of colors
Arts, entertainment, and media
editFilms
edit- Colors (film), a 1988 film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
- Colours (film), a 2009 Indian Malayalam film
Games
edit- Colors (video game), a cancelled video game for the Gizmondo GPS console
- Colours (solitaire), a card game
- Colors!, a Nintendo DS homebrew program
- Sonic Colors, a 2010 video game for the Wii
Literature
edit- The Colour, a 2003 novel by Rose Tremain
- Color, a 1925 poetry collection by Countee Cullen
Theater
edit- The Colours (play), a 2019 play by Harriet Madeley
Music
editGroups
edit- Color (band), a Japanese punk band
- Colour, a defunct British math pop band formerly signed to Big Scary Monsters Recording Company
- The Colour, a defunct American band whose guitarist now fronts the band The Romany Rye
- The Color (band), Canadian Christian music group
Albums
editColor(s)
- Color (NEWS album), 2008
- Color (Katie Gately album), 2016
- Color (EP), a 2022 EP by Kwon Eun-bi
- Colors (Beck album), 2017
- Colors (Between the Buried and Me album), 2007
- Colors (CNBLUE album), 2015
- Colors (Laleh album), 2013
- Colors (Ken Nordine album), 1966
- Colors (House of Heroes album), 2016
- Colors (EP), a 2015 EP by Miss A
- Colors (Rina Aiuchi album), 2010
- Colors (mixtape), 2022, by YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Colors, a 1990 album by Mari Hamada
- Colors, a 1974 album by Raul de Souza
- Color, a 2010 EP by Girugamesh
- The Color (album), a 2011 album by Yellowbirds
Colour(s)
- Colour (Andy Hunter album), 2008
- Colour (The Christians album), 1990
- Colours (Adam F album), 1997
- Colours (Ayumi Hamasaki album), 2014
- Colours (Baccara album), 1979
- Colours (Christopher album), 2012
- Colours (1972 Donovan album)
- Colours (1987 Donovan album)
- Colours (1991 Donovan album)
- Colours (Eloy album), 1980
- Colours (Graffiti6 album), 2010
- Colours (Mark Norman album), 2007
- Colours (Michael Learns to Rock album), 1993
- Colours (Nadia Oh album), 2011
- Colours (Resurrection Band album), 1980
- Colours (Stone album), 1990
- Colours (PartyNextDoor EP), 2014
- Colours (Solar EP), 2024
- Colours, a 1999 album by The Ten Tenors
- Colours, a 2019 EP by Pixey
Songs
edit- Color(s)
- "Colors" (Broiler song), 2013
- "Colors" (Flow song), 2006
- "Colors" (Halsey song), 2016
- "Colors" (Hikaru Utada song), 2003
- "Colors" (Ice-T song), 1988
- "Colors" (Jason Derulo song), 2018
- "Colors" (Morandi song), 2009
- "Color", a 2010 song by The Maine from Black & White
- "Color", a 2016 song by Todrick Hall from Straight Outta Oz
- "Color", a 2017 song by Carly Pearce from Every Little Thing
- "Colors", a 1990 song by Iced Earth from Iced Earth
- "Colors", a 2004 song by Crossfade from Crossfade
- "Colors", a 2007 song by The Rocket Summer from Do You Feel
- "Colors (Into Nothing)", a 2012 song by Code Orange from Love Is Love/Return to Dust
- "Colors", a 2015 song by Hardwell from United We Are
- "Colors", a 2016 song by Eric Saade from Saade
- "Colors", a 2016 song by OneRepublic from Oh My My
- "Colors", a 2016 song by Stella Jang from the EP of the same name
- "Colors", a 2017 song by Beck from Colors
- "Colors", a 2017 song by Day6 from Moonrise (Day6 album)
- "Colors", a 2018 song by Iz*One from Color*Iz
- "Colors", a 2019 song by Black Pumas from Black Pumas
- "Colors", a 2019 song by Loona from X X
- "Colors", a 2021 song by Lauren Jauregui
- "Colors", a 2022 song by Gryffin from Alive
- Colour(s)
- "Colours" (Donovan song), 1965
- "Colours" (Grouplove song), 2011
- "Colour", a 1998 song by Seal from Human Being
- "Colours", a 2013 song by Age of Consent from The Music of Grand Theft Auto V
- "Colours", a 2007 song by Calvin Harris from I Created Disco
- "Colours", a 2006 song by Hot Chip from The Warning
- "Colours", a 1989 song by Phil Collins from ...But Seriously
- "Colours", a 2012 song by The Chevin from Borderland
- "Colours", a 2009 song by The Prodigy from Invaders Must Die
- "Colours", a 1989 song by The Sisters of Mercy from Floodland
- "Colours", a 2019 song by Keiino
- "Colours", a 2019 song by Pixey
Other uses in music
edit- Tone color, or timbre
- Color, in medieval music theory, a sequence of repeated notes in the cantus firmus tenor of a composition, in isorhythm
- Coloration, in medieval music theory, a technique of marking notes, in mensural notation
Television
edit- Colors TV, an Indian television channel
- Colours (TV channel), a Philippine satellite television channel
- "Color", an episode of the Adult Swim television series Off the Air
- Colors (TV series), and Indian television show, see Reema Debnath
Visual art
edit- Color analysis (art), a process of determining the colors that best suit an individual's natural coloring
- Color code, a system for displaying information by using different colors
- Color photography
- Color theory, the art of color mixing and the visual impact of color combinations
- Color wheel or color circle, a logical arrangement of colors around a circle for artistic or scientific purposes
- Color, in typography, the overall density and balance between white space and print in a page layout
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Color (manga), a 1999 Japanese manga
- Color commentary, or color, in a sporting event broadcast, supplemental information offered between play-by-play calls
- Colors (magazine), a multilingual quarterly magazine
- COLORS, or ColorsxStudios, a German live performance media company and YouTube channel
Computing and technology
edit- Color (software), a color-grading application for Apple's Final Cut Studio video production suite
- Color Labs, a former social photo and video broadcasting smartphone application, also known as color.com
Finance and law
edit- Color of law, a legal term meaning "pretense or appearance of" some right
- Color, also known as gamma decay, the derivative of gamma with respect to time
Insignia and groups
edit- Colors (motorcycling), motorcycling club insignia
- Military colours, flags of a regiment, battalion, etc.
- Gang colors, colors or insignia worn by gang members
- Political colour, colors associated with a political party or ideology
- Sporting colours, a form of recognition for sporting prowess at a university; known in many places as a Blue
- Color Genomics, a population health company that provides genetic tests
- Colors (symbolic), representative of institutions, for example as at List of Oklahoma state symbols
Skin color, ethnicity, or race
edit- Colored, a potentially offensive term used in the U.S. to refer to people of certain ethnicities
- Coloureds, a term in Southern Africa for people of mixed ethnic origin
- Human skin color, human skin pigmentation
- Person of color, a term used primarily in the U.S. for a person who is not white
- Race (human categorization), as defined when conflated with skin color
Other
edit- Colors (restaurant), a restaurant in New York City
See also
edit- All pages with titles beginning with Color
- All pages with titles beginning with Colour
- The Color (disambiguation)
- Animal coloration
- Colorful (disambiguation)
- Coloring (disambiguation)
- In Color (disambiguation)
- Coulours, a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France
- List of colors