They Say Some Colors Are Soothing. Here Are Some Colors.

Tim Wallace
5 min readMar 21, 2020
An Eclipse of the Color Wheel, Robert Bechtle | 1961
Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance, Ellsworth Kelly | 1951
Chromatics | 1817
Mezzotint Colour Chart, Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty | 1746
[swatches] | c. 1920
Spectrum | c. 1950
Blue Note (and a few Prestige) album covers sorted by color | 1900s
New York Times | 1908 (Ok, this one isn’t soothing 😏)
Sample Plate | 1920s
Opal | 5–6 million years in the making
Natural System of Colours, Moses Harris | 1811
Leda | 1931
Thought-Forms, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbetter | 1905
Watercolor | 1994
Fortune | 1959
Astronaut photos | ~1980s-present
Ad in Fortune Magazine | 1947

--

--