Kate Smith's banquet of color information ranges from practical tips to fascinating trivia. Besides her personal take on 25 paint brands and her current interest in getting metallic colors into the garden, learn the deeper meaning of orange roses, the color of packaging that signals healthy eating (blue!), and the derivation of the phrase "in the pink" (it's British). Visit SensationalColor.com here.
When it comes to devising luminous color schemes, top-flight architects consider paint maestro Donald Kaufman to be an artist. Go straight to the glossary for Kaufman's thoughtful definitions of words and concepts related to color, light, and space. Violet, he judges, is the most ephemeral color, "nearly always about to evaporate." Visit DonaldKaufmanColor.com here.