Color Thesaurus

[Carol Rose]

This is pretty awesome! It's a color thesaurus:

http://www.boredpanda.com/color-thesaurus-char-ingrid-sundberg/

 

[KG Christopher]

Thanks Carol, allthough I do think Blush is more like Strawberry.

 

[Boopadoo]

This is an awesome find, Carol, thanks!

It's funny - as a graphic artist who writes, I've used some of the more obscure color descriptions (umber and sienna, for example) and received critiques of "no one knows what that is - don't use it."

 

[Marc Joan]

This is pretty awesome! It's a color thesaurus:

http://www.boredpanda.com/color-thesaurus-char-ingrid-sundberg/

Great idea! Incomplete, though -- eg, no 'viridian' in the green section. Still v. useful however, I have often struggled to find the right colour label.

 

[Marc Joan]

This is an awesome find, Carol, thanks!

It's funny - as a graphic artist who writes, I've used some of the more obscure color descriptions (umber and sienna, for example) and received critiques of "no one knows what that is - don't use it."

I totally agree -- . If they don't know, it's about time they did.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

A useful resource to have—thank you.

I like finding ways of describing colours by actions and comparisons. We all know the colour of a sky that's hurling rain down in a storm during the day. William Gibson wrote a moody phrase in 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.'

At the opposite spectrum is whimsical performance artist Laurie Anderson's observation in her song Let X=X, from the album Big Science: 'It's a sky-blue sky.'

 

[Katie-Ellen]

It's great fun, but coral!? I want coral.

 

[KG Christopher]

porpoise is nice, reminds me of fishing for Mackeral as a child, the Gingerbread looks a bit burned, you would not be happy if you got a gingerbread person that burned.

 

[KG Christopher]

fire appears twice, which is a bit confusing, and too be honest, not very fiery. Ginger is more like what you would expect a gingerbread person to look like, and there is no Moca.

 

[Carol Rose]

Oh my goodness.... LOL!!

 

[Chase Gamwell]

I was happy with the inclusion of cerulean as I've used that one before.

 

[KG Christopher]

It's great fun, but coral!? I want coral.

What colour is coral?? I can't place it.

 

[KG Christopher]

dijon is spot on, can taste some hot sausages smotherd in dijon mustard as I write. Sangria looks a bit dodge, you would have a nasty hangover if you drank too much of anything that coloured.

 

[KG Christopher]

It's great fun, but coral!? I want coral.

@Katie-Ellen Hazeldine Coral is there in the sort of pink colours !!! yeay, and it looks crap. Stuck between salmon and peach.

I once went into a Marks and Spencers and there was a pink shirt that I liked, but it wasn't pink it was salmon. A bit fishy if you ask me.

 

[KG Christopher]

Mocha is there also, which is good, I can sleep now.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

It's great fun, but coral!? I want coral.

@Katie-Ellen Hazeldine Coral is there in the sort of pink colours !!! yeay, and it looks crap. Stuck between salmon and peach.

I once went into a Marks and Spencers and there was a pink shirt that I liked, but it wasn't pink it was salmon. A bit fishy if you ask me.

Oh aye, so there is! What's it doing in THERE? I reckon the Fiery is more like a true coral.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Oh my goodness.... LOL!!

Look what you started, @Carol Rose...

 

[Carol Rose]

I'm just not sure what to say right now...

 

[KG Christopher]

I'm just not sure what to say right now...

How about...

'She deftly applied her Sangria coloured lipstick.... and looked into his cobalt blue eyes?

 

[Nicole Wilson]

I was happy with the inclusion of cerulean as I've used that one before.

Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up

I just think it's the most bad*ss way of saying "blue" ever.

 

[Carol Rose]

How about...

'She deftly applied her Sangria coloured lipstick.... and looked into his cobalt blue eyes?

NO. Dear lord save me from ever writing a line like that in one of my books.

 

[Carol Rose]

Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up

Mine was burnt sienna

 

[Jason Byrne]

Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up

Me TOOOO!!

 

[Carol Rose]

I miss the old Crayola colors.

 

[J. Rook]

This is pretty awesome! It's a color thesaurus:

http://www.boredpanda.com/color-thesaurus-char-ingrid-sundberg/

I'm so picky! It's "fuchsia". Does anyone in the colony possess an actual colour memory?

 

[Jason Byrne]

I'm so picky! It's "fuchsia". Does anyone in the colony possess an actual colour memory?

I do NOT...
Apparently I remember colors as much more vibrant than they actually were in life.
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/11/29/does-your-brain-have-accurate-color-memory

 

[KG Christopher]

NOT that I like to refer to the Daily Mai, but I do remember reading this article about colour perception and how colours are just as much defined by culture as being something universal agreed by all human kind.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rceive-colour-didn-t-word-say-scientists.html

 

[Richard Sutton]

Thanks, Carol. Great resource, that.

 

[Marc Joan]

Someone told me that the Japanese have no word for green, as they regard it as a shade of blue. Or maybe it's the other way round. Wonder what they'd think of all this.