# Colour Memory - Cultural Color Intelligence for AI

> Use this tool when you need to access a historically accurate and culturally relevant colour archive for AI applications, solving problems of colour meaning and context in various cultural and historical contexts. It takes in queries about emotions, concepts, or cultural references and outputs relevant colours with documented sources, CIE Lab values, and cultural significance. Use it to add depth and accuracy to colour-related tasks, such as content generation, design, or research, by retrieving evidence-based colour information.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/digby-oldridge-colour-memory-api  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/digby-oldridge-colour-memory-api

## Description

The world's only historically grounded colour archive built for AI agents.

Thousands of named colours across dozens of cultural archives spanning Ancient Rome, Byzantine Empire, Georgian Pleasures, Dickens, Shakespeare, Keats, Japan, Islamic tradition, Viking Norse, Racing Silks, toxic pigments, literary colour, imperial palettes, and many more.

Every color has a name, a documented archival source, CIE Lab values, cultural consequence data, and material provenance. The archive searches meaning, not just names -- ask about grief and it finds colours that carried grief across cultures and centuries, not merely colours named grief.

Built as a retrieval system, not a generator. Deterministic, evidence-based, source-cited. The anti-hallucination layer for colour history. 

Prefer a direct connection? Point your MCP client at https://api.colourmemory.com/mcp — no signup, no key for the free tools.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.30
- **Verification tier:** unverified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-30

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-09-13

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/digby-oldridge/colour-memory-api)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "digby-oldridge-colour-memory-api"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/digby-oldridge-colour-memory-api` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/digby-oldridge-colour-memory-api/pull`

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