Many artists refuse to confine themselves to a box. But Carrie Chan, a perfectionist by nature, math nerd and Dallas-based watercolor painter with an online shop called A Perfect Something, calculates ...

Adobe Illustrator refers to color palettes as swatches. Color swatches are groups of preset colors. Users can select colors from the generic swatch preset or load any number of custom swatch sets. You ...

Whereas process colors result from an on-the-fly mixture of four primary ink colors on a printing press, spot colors print using premixed inks that reproduce specific shades. Printing a project in one ...

This is the year of mocha mousse, according to Pantone. The company's annual color craze originates in part from the work of a 19th-century ornithologist who described the dizzying array of bird ...

Charles Darwin took a copy of Patrick Syme's book, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with him on his Beagle voyage in 1831 and used it to make natural history observations. A new partnership between ...

There have been a number of new miniature paints launched over the last few years, including Citadel’s revolutionary line of Contrast paints, Army Painter’s new single-coat solution, and the Two Thin ...