The colours

Colour archive

Blue

The sky made internal.

sky ocean deep water distant mountains

Red

Fire and blood, made visible.

fire blood fruit sunset

Gold

Value solidified into light.

sunlight precious metal wheat fields ancient icons

Black

The weight of all absence.

night shadow void deep water

White

All colours held in suspension.

snow light bone cloud

Green

Life as a colour.

leaves grass moss forest

Yellow

The colour closest to light itself.

sun ripe fruit pollen fire (at distance)

Orange

The colour of endings that are also beginnings.

sunset embers autumn leaves citrus

Purple

The rarest colour in nature, and the costliest to make.

twilight bruised skin rare flowers night sky at dusk

Pink

The colour of what is alive and newly arrived.

flesh blossom dawn new skin

Grey

The world without commitment to a feeling.

fog stone ash overcast sky

Brown

The colour of the ground beneath everything.

soil wood bark mud

Cyan

Blue distilled to its coolest, most crystalline form.

tropical water clear ice screens glaciers

Magenta

A colour that does not exist in the spectrum — only in the mind.

synthetic dye printer ink bougainvillea neon signs

Neon

A colour that shouldn't exist, screaming to be seen.

fluorescent tubes safety vests highlighters LED strips

Silver

The colour that gives back what it receives.

metal moonlight mirrors water surface

Indigo

Blue pressed into darkness until it becomes something else.

deep night sky ocean depths ink bruised dusk

Turquoise

The colour of water over paradise.

tropical water copper oxide the stone itself shallow reef

Crimson

Red with nowhere left to go but deeper.

arterial blood concentrated fire deep roses wine

Ochre

The first colour humanity ever made its own.

iron oxide cave walls desert sand ancient pigment