A new image from The King of Color highlights the man who would standardize color with the Pantone Matching System.

In 1966, artist Gerhard Richter began painting simple, uniform grids of colored rectangles or squares on a white background. With just one exception, 1966’s Ema (Nude on a Staircase), the color charts ...

It’s a gimmick. Yet I always fall for it. Every year at this time, paint companies announce their (cue the drumroll) Color of the Year, or COTY, as insiders call it. They roll out the paint color they ...

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