Traditionally, the colors used in Holi came from flowers and herbs, but today they’re often synthetic. Tarun Chhabra, Smithsonian.com Photo Contest Archives In India, the colors of Holi carry meaning.

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Streets across the Indian subcontinent became playgrounds on Thursday as revelers threw colored powder and water at each other to celebrate Holi, also known as the Hindu festival of color. Holi is ...

Plastic water bottle caps are color coded based on the type of water: blue caps indicate "spring water"; black caps signify alkaline water; green caps signal flavored water, and white caps mean ...

Green starts out mixed — some blue, some yellow. So maybe it’s only natural that it invokes such mixed feelings. Its metaphors are mixed, too: Greenbacks and the green light lead to greener pastures.