At 96, Pantone inventor Lawrence Herbert gets his due in ‘The King of Color,’ a documentary about the man who brought order to a chaotic 1950s world of color. Patrick Creadon is the director and ...

Existing color systems, such as RGB and CYMK, are all text-based and require a large range of values to represent different colors, making them difficult to compute and time-consuming to convert.

In a new documentary, the creator of the Pantone system explains how he standardized colors across the globe.

Johann Gottlob Kurr, "The Mineral Kingdom" (1859), grayish blue is visible on the iron ore (bottom row, right) (all images from "Nature’s Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World," ...