I just came across this funny cartoon about the difference between men and women in terms of colour names.
But on the same page I found the results from an actual colour survey where over five million colours were named across 222,500 user sessions.
I just came across this funny cartoon about the difference between men and women in terms of colour names.
But on the same page I found the results from an actual colour survey where over five million colours were named across 222,500 user sessions. One aspect of the results is shown below:
It does seem that there is some evidence that women use more colour names than men – though generally there was agreement between how the names were used. For further details see the original article.
For several decades there has been a great interest in understanding how we use colour names. Do we use the same colo