Color

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Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc.

Color or colour may also refer to:

Science

• Color vision, the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect or emit
• Color charge, in particle physics, a property of quarks and gluons
• Color index, in astronomy, a simple numerical expression that determines the color of an object
• Primary color, a color belonging to a set of three that can be combined to make a gamut of colors
• Colorimetry, the mathematical science of the measurement and perception of color
• Animal colouration
  • "Coloured", a term used in the British Isles to describe the coat of a Pinto horse
• Color temperature, the temperature of a radiating black body corresponding to a given color of light
• Colors of noise, the descriptions of noises based on the shape of their spectral densities
• Biological pigments, colored substances in living organisms
• Pigment, solid colored particles, used in paints

Society and politics

• Color (law) (or color of law), a legal term meaning "pretense or appearance of" some right
• Colored (USA), Coloured (UK, South Africa), Person of color, referring to skin color, ethnic group, or race
• Colours, a military ceremony
• Colours, standards and guidons, military flags
• Human skin color the literal color of a human being's skin
• Political colour, colors that represent or are associated with a political stance, an ideology, or a position on the political spectrum
• Race (classification of human beings) as defined when conflated with skin color
• Regimental colour, a flag carried or maintained by British Army and Commonwealth infantry regiments or battalions

Visual art and entertainment

• Color (software), a color-grading application for Apple's Final Cut Studio video production suite
• Color commentary, or simply color, in a sporting event broadcast, supplemental information offered between play-by-play calls
• Color photography
• Color theory, the art of color mixing and the visual impact of color combinations
• Color, in typography, the overall density and balance between white space and print in a page layout
• Color wheel or color circle, a logical arrangement of colors around a circle for artistic or scientific purposes
• Colors (film), a 1988 film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
• Colors (magazine), a multilingual quarterly magazine
• Colors (video game), a cancelled video game for the Gizmondo GPS console
• CoLours TV, a television channel
• Colors (India TV channel), an Indian television channel
• Colors!, a Nintendo DS homebrew program

Music

• Color (medieval music), two technical meanings of the Latin term color in medieval music theory (Mensural notation and Isorhythm)
• Tone color or timbre

Performers

• Colours (band), a Balearic electronic band
• Color (band), a Japanese visual kei band (Note: there are at least two other Japanese musical groups with the same name.)

Albums

• Colour (album), by Andy Hunter°
• Colours (Adam F album)
• Colours (Baccara album)
• Colors (Between the Buried and Me album)
  • Colors Live, a live album and video by Between the Buried and Me
• Four Donovan albums, named after his song:
  • Colours (1972 album)
  • Colours (1987 album)
  • Colours (1991 album)
  • Colours: Live in Concert, 2001
• Colours (Eloy album)
• Colours (Mark Norman album)
• Colours (MLTR album), by Michael Learns To Rock
• Colours (Resurrection Band album)
• Colors (Avishai Cohen album), by Avishai Cohen
• Colors (Raul de Souza album), by Raul de Souza
• Colors, by Ken Nordine
• Colours, by Stone

Songs

• "Colors" (Crossfade song)
• "Colors" (Hikaru Utada song)
• "Colors", a song by Flow
• "Colors", a song by Ice-T from the 1988 film Colors
• "Colors", a song by Iced Earth from Iced Earth
• "Colors", a song by Morandi
• "Colors", a song by DJ TAKA found in many games in Konami's Bemani series
• "Colors 2007 (Reggae Remix)", a song by Sean Kingston from Sean Kingston
• "Colours" (Donovan song), a 1965 single
• "Colours" (Calvin Harris song)
• "Colours", a song by Hot Chip from The Warning
• "Colours", a song by Phil Collins from ...But Seriously
• "Colours", a song by The Prodigy from Invaders Must Die
• "Colours", a song by The Sisters of Mercy from Floodland

Other uses

• Colours (solitaire), a card game
• Color code, a system for displaying information by using different colors
• Food coloring, any substance added to food to change its color
• Color (finance), in mathematical finance, a characteristic of a derivative
• iPod Color or iPod Photo, a portable media player

See also

• List of colors
• List of all pages beginning with Color
• List of all pages beginning with Colour

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