All About Colour

A fascinating and idiosyncratic journey through colour — its history, its meaning, and its effect on everyday life.


Janice Lindsay, one of Canada’s leading colour designers, combines history, biology, and interior design with personal insights from years of helping others choose colour and get it right. She explains how the invisible colour in daylight is as essential to our bodies as air and water. Lindsay explains how we all have a colour wisdom that is millions of years in the making based on nature encoded into our DNA and that we need to draw on that wisdom to humanize our built environments. She has seen first hand that colour is not just decoration. It has the power to change how we feel and function to make a house a home and to make each of us happier every day.


This book is about you. You and colour are linked in ways that we haven’t imagined. Beware: after reading this book you will never look at colour the same way again.