Color Thesaurus

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Boopadoo said:
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." o_O
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I totally agree -- o_Oo_Oo_O. If they don't know, it's about time they did.
 
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.'
 
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.
 
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