It accurately identified Olive Green and provided an RAL code — a color identification system used for varnish, powder coatings, and plastics. Oddly, it struggles with more generic colors.

It’s common to love a color at the beauty counter only to discover that it doesn’t look as you’d hoped when you try it at home. Much of this has to do with your skin’s undertone.

This research showed not only that color vision affects the number of times a person can correctly identify a color, but also the speed of identification, also called reaction time. Pilots with normal ...