“Color, it turns out, was tactical,” writes Stamper. “Thousands and thousands of yards of camouflage covers needed to be dyed ...
The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define ...
In the early 1900s, defining color in the dictionary required the expertise of a scientist.
Today, naturalists who want to capture the precise color of a certain specimen can rely on color photography, safe in the knowledge that the hues can be preserved for exact recreation or reference.
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