Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. Drawing on the screen is all very well and good, but if it's all white-on-black text, your program ...

Pantone has chosen its “Colors of the Year” for 2020, and they are a study in contrasts: “Illuminating,” a sunshine-y yellow; and “Ultimate Gray,” which is... pretty gray. The New York Times posits ...

Most colors that we see are a combination of the three primary colors of light: red, green, and blue. These additive colors can mix together to form other familiar hues such as yellow, magenta, and ...

Why does ncurses support only eight colors? If you've looked into the color palette available in curses, you may wonder why curses supports only eight colors. The curses.h include file defines these ...

Color blindness occurs when problems with the color-sensing pigments in the eye cause a difficulty or an inability to distinguish colors. The majority of people who are colorblind can’t distinguish ...

Since my first column on color coding 1 appeared, we have received a number of e-mails asking us to highlight the issue of color blindness. One of those correspondences was published in the October ...

The current Food and Drug Administration concern that artificial food dyes could increase hyperactivity in children and cause other health hazards raises a simple question: Why do we put these things ...