This talk is about the state of color over the two decades of our Color Imaging Conference (CIC). It describes what led to the first meeting. It has a general discussion of two of the important paradigms in thinking about color over these 20 years; the expansion of colorimetry to device profiles; and the expansion of color constancy to spatial image processing. It also describes the critical role of measuring human color image vision to understand how to design systems that reproduce appearances found in art, photography and image processing.