Gallery: Infographics: The Colors Mentioned Most in 10 Famous Books
01book-Wizard of ozjpg
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* is predominately green with a sizable strip of yellow thanks to mentions of Emerald City and the yellow brick road. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
02book-The Little Prince
Parkinson pulled data from direct mentions of color but also more abstract sources like metaphors, imagery and actual illustrations like with *The Little Prince*. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
03book-The Road
Cormac McCarthy's *The Road* is appropriately dark. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
04book-A Clockwork Orange
*A Clockwork Orange* is mostly red, despite its title. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
05book-1984
Parkison tallied each reference to color on an Excel sheet. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
06book-A Study in Scarlet
She then used that data as units to build her visualizations in Photoshop. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
07book-Mice and menjpg
Steinbeck's *Of Mice and Men* has a softer hue to it because of all of the references to nature. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
08book-Revelation
*The Book of Revelation* is full of gold, jewels, blood and fire. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
09book-The Color Purple
*The Color Purple*'s signature is an interesting look at how the issue of race was addressed in the book. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
10book-The Great Gatsby
Parkinson chose to not make the signatures chronological to keep the focus on the color. *Image: Jaz Parkinson*
