The History and Geography of Color

From Lapham's Quarterly

PINK

Because things got weird in the Victorian Era too

See THIS ARTICLE on Victorian Occultism and Synesthesia from The Public Domain Review

On the Color Mauve

Color and Urine

The wheel consisted of 20 colours ranging from ‘white as wellwater’ to ‘ruddy as pure intense gold’ and lastly ‘black as very dark horn.’