In Colors

Where Original Color Lives

October 22, 2016

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We take modern day color for granted, but the sources of today’s vibrant colors originate from actual pigments based in nature. The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard houses a huge collection of these, including some exceptionally rare pigments. The collection has over 2,500 rare colors, collected from around the world over the last 100 years.

Via Colossal:

[some of the] rarest pigments including a particularly vivid shade of yellow produced from the urine of cows that are fed only mango leaves.

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Ben VanderVeen is the founder and editor of Moss & Fog, one of the web’s longest-running visual culture destinations. Since 2009, he’s been finding and framing the most beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking work in art, architecture, design, and nature — reaching over 325,000 readers each month. He lives in Portland, Oregon.