The Library that Protects The World’s Rarest Colors

Today, every color imaginable is at your fingertips. But rewind to a few centuries ago and finding that one specific color might have meant trekking to a single mineral deposit in remote Afghanistan—as was the case with lapis lazuli, a rock prized for its brilliant blue hue, which made it more valuable than gold in medieval times.

The Forbes Pigment collection at Harvard University is an invaluable resource for art historians around the world.  Read more about it at Fast Code Design.