AI can make any colour. Colour Memory knows where it came from.
Already in the Claude connector directory and launching publicly today, the UK-built archive gives Claude the source and evidence behind a colour, and refuses to invent what was never recorded.
OXFORDSHIRE, 20 October 2026. Ask most people what colour Dorothy's slippers were and they will say ruby. In L. Frank Baum's 1900 book, they were silver. Ask Claude, using Colour Memory, and it follows the colour from page to screen: silver in Baum's book, with the page numbers; ruby red for the Technicolor film, in the Smithsonian's own words; then the museum's surviving pair taken apart colour by colour, down to a bluish pink dye over silver and toe sequins faded by the studio lights. Where something was never measured, it does not invent a hex value. See it, with the exact question to copy:
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