Before Pantone, there was this hand-painted 17th century color guide By Jacob Kastrenakes, a deputy editor who oversees tech and news coverage. Since joining The Verge in 2012, he’s published 5,000+ stories and is the founding editor of the creators desk. A large and largely undocumented Dutch manuscript from 1692 was brought to the world's attention last week after a historian published images of
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