The Art of Color Categorization

Chapter 1:     Introduction

1.1 My Father and the Okinawan Fish

1.2 Colorful Cakes in New York

1.3 The Color of the Sun in Weather Forecasts

1.4 What is 'Color'?

1.5 On Categorization

1.6 Why Did Van Gogh's Color Palette Change?

1.7 Color Vision of Japanese Macaques

1.8 Wishes for This Book

Part I: Categorizing Colors

Chapter 2:     Categorizing the Rainbow

2.1 Fluctuating Number of Colors in a Rainbow

2.2 Newton's Rainbow Color Discovery through Musical Comparison

2.3 Natural Fine Categorization: The Fraunhofer Line

2.4 The Rainbow Flag

 

Chapter 3:     Categorizing Colors by Name

3.1 Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

3.2 Boundaries of Color Charts

3.3 Color Charts and Lighting

3.4 Categorizing in Detail

3.5 Putting it Together Broadly

3.6 Increasing and Decreasing

3.7 Evolution and Eugenics

3.8 Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Traditional Color Names Matter for Gender?

 

Chapter 4:     Categorizing Colors by Criteria

4.1 Primary Colors

4.2 Pure Colors

4.3 Ranking

4.4 Attributes

4.5 Color Wheels and Color Spaces

4.6 Color Standards and Foods

 Chapter 5:     Categorizing Colors by Environment and Senses



5.1 Temperature

5.2 Humidity

5.3 Domestic Animals

5.4 Festivals and Everyday Life

5.5 Gender

5.6 SynesthetesPart II: Categorizing Things 'by' Color



Chapter 6:     Categorizing Food by Color

6.1 Package 1: Milk in the USA and Japan

6.2 Package 2: American and Japanese Confectionery

6.2.1 Candy

6.2.2

Kyoko Hidaka, Ph.D. specializes in researching color order systems and color charts, specifically exploring their use in classifying things and communication. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. She has translated scholarly books in Japanese: A Color Notation (2009), On Designing (2016) and Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (2016).