Everything about Color Naming System

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Color Naming SystemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color NamingCited 133 times
5. Go sideways: Comparison of color models in computer graphicsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: X11 color namesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming

  Paul Kay, Brent Berlin, William Merrifield · 1991 · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 133 citations

• Computer artist's color naming system

  Arie Kaufman · 1986 · The Visual Computer · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

  Kang-Suk Byun, Seán G. Roberts, Connie de Vos · 2022 · Frontiers in Communication · 8 citations

• Cultural evolution via iterated learning and communication explains efficient color naming systems

  Emil Carlsson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Terry Regier · 2024 · Journal of Language Evolution · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• BibleBible · 1200
• Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813
• Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · 1876
• Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1686
• EmmaJane Austen · 1815
• Meine Musiknoten : Notenheft , Notenpapier 12 Systeme Blanko Mit Register Für Musik, Notizen, Texte. Für Musiker, Komponisten, Musikunterricht, Schüler, Studenten, Songwriter- MotivMagic Music · 2019
• Technical CommunicationJohn M. Lannon · 2000
• Uprooting racismPaul Kivel · 1995

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