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Color-naming systems across languages (blue circles) achieve near-optimal compression. The theoretical limit is defined by the IB curve (black). A total of 93% of the languages achieve better trade-offs than any of their hypothetical variants (gray circles). Small light-blue Xs mark the languages in Fig. 4, which are ordered by complexity.
