But what color is indigo? Turns out, that's a big question. A mix of blue and purple — and affectionately known in the Livingetc office as 'blurple' — indigo sits on the color spectrum ...

The ridges of the mortar in between the bricks emit a blue hue, the color of the ocean: indigo, a name that refers to the shrub, the dye the plant produces and the color itself. This crumbling ...

With indigo elsewhere, you can dye it over and over, but it doesn't get much deeper than navy. 05:18 But with Japanese indigo, that's the baseline: it's like the color gets richer from there.