Spectrophotometry for Colourant
I'm not sure I have answer to your question maybe, if you consider natural colorant too, these are the articles that go more close to what you want:

Prediction of phenolic compounds in red wine fermentations by visible and near infrared spectroscopy

Spectroscopic, stability and radical-scavenging properties of a novel pigment from gardenia

Try to have a look a these too:

Mimani, T., and Samrat Ghosh. "Combustion synthesis of cobalt pigments: Blue and pink." Current Science 78.7 (2000): 892-896.

Bernardi, M. I. B., et al. "Comparison of blue pigments prepared by two different methods." Journal of the European Ceramic Society 22.16 (2002): 2911-2919.

Visinescu, Diana, et al. "The environmentally benign synthesis of nanosized Co&lt; sub> x Zn&lt; sub> 1− x Al&lt; sub> 2 O&lt; sub> 4 blue pigments." Dyes and Pigments 87.2 (2010): 125-131.