Where the colors come from?

Most objects get their color from light shining on them. They absorb certain wavelengths of light and reflect others. Different wavelengths are absorbed to various degrees such that what gets reflected is a mixture of what does not get absorbed at each wavelength.Sep 16, 2007 read more

Inks, dyes, or pigments in color prints also selectively absorb and reflect certain wavelengths of light and so produce the effect of color. Although light from the sun appears colorless or "white" it actually contains a range of colors similar to a rainbow. read more

As different societies developed names for colors, across the globe, isolated cultures went about naming the colors, but weirdly, they all generally did it in the same order. Called the hierarchy of color names, the order was generally (with a few exceptions): black, white, red, green, yellow, and blue with others like brown, purple and pink coming at various times afterward. read more