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The Color Council (ISCC) is the principal interdisciplinary society in the United States dedicated to sharing color research and best practices in science, industry, design/arts and education.

Upcoming Events

From Plant to Pattern: Exploring Natural Fashion Colors with Almonds and Indigo

Speakers: Dr. Jiangning Che and students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising & Management, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Friday, October 16, 2026. 12-1PM EST

17 Nov 2026 2:00 PM (US Eastern) - 3:00 PM

Ren Ng presents: A tale of three novel colors: olo, keef and litz

This talk will be about research into novel human color perception. We showed human subjects a novel color, olo, by individually stimulating thousands of cells on the retina with laser microdoses, using a system we call Oz Vision. Olo corresponds to targeting only M cone cells and not L or S cones, which never happens in natural vision. Olo appears blue-green of unprecedented saturation. In theory, there are other novel colors that could not be as easily described. This talk will present the mathematical theory of two such tetrachromatic colors, keef and litz, and work towards prototyping them in the real world.

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Color Research & Application

How Well do Humans Perceive Non-Uniform Surface Noise Variation?

In this article, we explore the impact of the non-uniform aspect (also called texture) of human perception. This paper provides results on the required level of variation for humans to perceive two non-uniform surfaces as being different. The first step was to define the non-uniform image to use. As the focus was on vision and not brain analysis, the images had to be non-semantic. We chose to generate images from 3D Gaussian noise. Then, a psychophysical experiment was conducted presenting two images. The observer needed to choose the more textured one. The results show that, on average, humans are sensitive to the smallest variation of noise in the image

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A Look Inside Our Quarterly:

Blue Morphos Have a Cool Color

I first encountered the blue morpho in Kai Kupferschmidt’s book, Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color, which I reviewed in Issue 504 of ISCC News. There I learned about a tricky problem that the butterfly appears to have solved through natural selection. Interference patterns can lead to brilliant structural colors, but the color you see generally depends on the angles of illumination and viewing.

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 NEWS!

Deadlines for our Student Support Grant are May 15 and October 15 of each year. This grant is designed to assist undergraduate and graduate students with activities pertaining to color. Details and application forms here.