This well illustrated infographic provides a historical timeline of some of the more notable colors of our time. The author goes into detail about each of these colors providing their chemical makeup and a brief origin for each. It is not an exhaustive list of colors, but no the less quite interesting.
Infographic Source: Veritable Hokum
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<div style="clear:both"><a href="http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/mummy-brown-and-other-historical-colors/"><img src="http://www.veritablehokum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Pigments.jpg" title="The Chemical History of Color Infographic" alt="History of Color Through Time Infographic" width="980" height="3297" border="0" /></a></div><div>Courtesy of: <a href="http://infographixdirectory.com">Infographix Directory</a></div>
