# World Color Survey Visualizations

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/world-color-survey
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://wcs.ijs.si/
Added: 2026-09-28

## Summary

Interactive views of the World Color Survey: how speakers of 110 languages named the Munsell chart.

Kay, Berlin, and colleagues ran the survey to test whether color vocabularies grow in a fixed order; this site makes the raw data browsable.

- Resource: [World Color Survey Visualizations](https://wcs.ijs.si/)
- By: Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson & Susanne Vejdemo
- Kind: references (tool)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: perception, color-theory, scientist, interactive, research, web

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