Growing up, I pored over the black-and-white images in the Vogue photographer Irving Penn’s second book, “ Worlds in a Small ...

Americans grow up knowing their colors are red, white and blue. It's right there in the flag, right there in the World Series bunting and on those floats every fourth of July.

Because of blue's scarcity in nature, the word for blue was a relative latecomer to languages around the world, appearing after the words for black, white, red and yellow, according to Kupferschmidt.

Dive into Pantone’s Color of the Year 2020 at Nanda Blue Hole in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. The swimming cove is known for having some of the bluest water in the world.