Pigment Sourcing Ethics

Pigment Sourcing Ethics

When Perfect Yellow Uproots a Town: Pigment Sourcing and Community Displacement

The yellow pigment in your living room paint looks harmless. It is cheerful. But that exact shade might have come from a mine that forced an entire vi...

Pigment Sourcing Ethics

What to Fix First When Your Supply Chain Has No Traceability

You finally get the lab report back on that group of Pigment Red 101. The color is perfect. But the sourcion paperwork? A black hole. No mine name, no...

Pigment Sourcing Ethics

Choosing a Blue That Doesn't Bleed Into Someone Else's Water Supply

Blue is the rarest natural color. It's also, pound for pound, one of the dirtiest. The deep indigo of your jeans might have come from a river in Bangl...