The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q As with all the Vox creators, a badge that levels up over time, and video extras bringing you closer to our work Learn more at In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book on a pretty groundbreaking idea: that every culture in history, when they developed their languages,