Chromatic Abstraction: Color as Data

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Colorific data-nerds! Welcome back to part 2 of my tiny series on color-as-data, considering the coolly abstracted life of color as a mere data-point. In the last post, I plumbed the tension between words and the colors they label, colors as hex values (and endlessly strobing online timepieces), the accidental meanings of Pantone numbers, like Pantone 666: the color of the beast is actually a pernicious periwinkle. Let’s pick up there, shall we?