Architectural color expert Amy Krane says that, simply put, indigo is both blue and purple."It is a deep blue tinged with purple," she says. In our interiors, it can swing either way, depending on ...

The international Color Committee — made up of delegates from the UK, US, Germany, Japan and Italy — has chosen Indigo as the most fashionable color around.

The enterprise, from planting seeds to packing finished cakes of dye, and occasionally transforming the color of cloth from brown or white to brilliant blue, would be the charge of the enslaved ...