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Blue and black or white and gold, how the dress colour you see says a lot about you. It's all about the way your brain is programmed to understand light — and whether you're a night or day person.

Some brains are subtracting blue "light" while others are subtracting yellowy gold tones. In the case of the blue dress, the brain is trying to subtract the colour bias caused by the light source.

Sunday Times News: CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key or black. These are the four colors of ink used in the traditional method of printing hardcopies of ima ...

What colors are in this dress? That simple question has divided people into two irrationally passionate camps: white and gold and blue and black. From this day on, the world will be divided into ...

One group of people see its colours as white and gold, while others insist it is really black and blue. There has been fierce argument across the internet and neither camp is willing to budge an inch.

As soon as it was posted on Tumblr, the photo of the black and blue — or white and gold — cocktail dress began creating rifts between friends and caused ...

Is it white and gold? Or is it black and blue? David Sillito explains A debate between family and friends about the colour of a dress for a wedding has become an internet sensation. Alana MacInnes ...

A big debate broke out on social media 10 years ago over the colour of the viral dress and once again the social media user reignited the discussion today.

Sorry white and gold people, 'the dress' is actually blue and black. There is a definitive answer to the color question. The retailer of the dress, Roman Originals, confirmed that the dress is ...