"The first thing our colour system lets you do is dump bus numbers above 100 and use colours as a replacement for the first digit."

"When you print on a color laser printer, it's likely that you are also printing a pattern of invisible yellow dots. These marks exist to allow the printer companies and governments to track and identify you -- presumably as a way to combat money counterfeiting."

"Painters are outraged that Anish Kapoor, the British sculptor who designed the blood-red Orbit tower for the London Olympics, has exclusive rights to the artistic use of [Vantablack carbon nanotube paint]."

"This is my suit. Color it gray or I will lose my job."

Stephin Merritt. "The great thing about brown is when it fades, you can't tell what color it originally was."

"As demonstrated in the chart below, The Ville uses the same precise RGB values for its skin tones as does The Sims Social."

"Looking away from the monitor it was with no small amount of gut-terror that I realised something was very wrong and turned back to type a message to my friends. [...] Our real worlds had turned monochrome. Some optical trick involving those red and white tiles had broken our eyes, and we could only see in pea green, sickly yellow and all the shades in between."

"So, since people (flesh-tones) exist in almost every frame of every movie ever made, what could be better than applying complementary color theory to make people seem to 'pop' from the background. I mean, people are really important, aren't they?"

"[Sports psychologists] showed video clips of [taekwondo] bouts to 42 experienced referees. They then played the same clips again, digitally manipulated so that the clothing colours were swapped round. [In close matches] red competitors awarded an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were dressed in blue." Maybe I should start picking red more often in board games.

"We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most 'interesting' Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour."

"We showed thousands of random colors like this to people on Mechanical Turk and asked what they would call them. Here’s what they said."

"Mugs to help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside. Available in Tea or Coffee styles."

Compete against opponents in a browser, or just (and I should perhaps do this) practice against a deck of learning-curved virtual cards until your forehead bleeds.

Synaesthetic music organiser experiment. "It turns out that most of us are able to create, with explanation, a strong link between a piece of music we are listening to and a specific colour."