Theory of Colours

Theory of Colours - 1810 book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book is the 1201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Theory of Colours” in English Wikipedia has 77 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 59 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Theory of Colours”, its content was written by 188 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 739 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Theory of Colours is on the 1201^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 394 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1017 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26722 in May 2014
• Global: #22577 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #58066 in December 2014
• Global: #56273 in December 2014

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		76.9808
2	Greek (el) Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων		65.3068
3	Basque (eu) Koloreen teoria (Goethe)		62.5489
4	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		57.5656
5	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		49.0228
6	Simple English (simple) Theory of Colours		44.9675
7	Catalan (ca) Teoria dels colors		31.2706
8	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		26.4017
9	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		25.8178
10	Swedish (sv) Zur Farbenlehre		25.3801

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Theory of Colours" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		1 432 114
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		926 296
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		540 127
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		504 134
5	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		280 399
6	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		179 215
7	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		164 574
8	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		115 687
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das Cores (livro)		64 966
10	Danish (da) Goethes farvelære		51 247

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Theory of Colours" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		4 423
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		2 612
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		1 217
4	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		997
5	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		788
6	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		545
7	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		499
8	Portuguese (pt) Teoria das Cores (livro)		362
9	Simple English (simple) Theory of Colours		349
10	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		266

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Theory of Colours" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		188
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		177
3	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		82
4	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		57
5	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		43
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		31
7	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		22
8	Simple English (simple) Theory of Colours		20
9	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		16
10	Norwegian (no) Goethes farvelære		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Theory of Colours" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων		1
2	Dutch (nl) Kleurenleer van Goethe		1
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية الألوان		0
4	Belarusian (be) Вучэнне пра колер		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Теория на цветовете		0
6	Catalan (ca) Teoria dels colors		0
7	Danish (da) Goethes farvelære		0
8	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		0
9	English (en) Theory of Colours		0
10	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Theory of Colours" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Theory of Colours		394
2	German (de) Farbenlehre (Goethe)		197
3	French (fr) Traité des couleurs		84
4	Italian (it) La teoria dei colori (Goethe)		77
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية الألوان		47
6	Russian (ru) К теории цвета		37
7	Spanish (es) Teoría de los colores		31
8	Japanese (ja) 色彩論		22
9	Chinese (zh) 色彩理论 (歌德)		21
10	Swedish (sv) Zur Farbenlehre		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الألوان
be	Belarusian Вучэнне пра колер
bg	Bulgarian Теория на цветовете
ca	Catalan Teoria dels colors
da	Danish Goethes farvelære
de	German Farbenlehre (Goethe)
el	Greek Θεωρία των Χρωμάτων
en	English Theory of Colours
es	Spanish Teoría de los colores
eu	Basque Koloreen teoria (Goethe)
fi	Finnish Zur Farbenlehre
fr	French Traité des couleurs
he	Hebrew תאוריית הצבעים של גתה
id	Indonesian Teori Warna
it	Italian La teoria dei colori (Goethe)
ja	Japanese 色彩論
ka	Georgian ფერადობის თეორია
ko	Korean 색채론
nl	Dutch Kleurenleer van Goethe
no	Norwegian Goethes farvelære
pt	Portuguese Teoria das Cores (livro)
ru	Russian К теории цвета
simple	Simple English Theory of Colours
sv	Swedish Zur Farbenlehre
zh	Chinese 色彩理论 (歌德)

Best Rank

English: #58066 12.2014

Global: #56273 12.2014

Best Rank

English: #26722 05.2014

Global: #22577 08.2019

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