This is pretty awesome! It's a color thesaurus:
http://www.boredpanda.com/color-thesaurus-char-ingrid-sundberg/
http://www.boredpanda.com/color-thesaurus-char-ingrid-sundberg/
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Color Thesaurus
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Thanks Carol, allthough I do think Blush is more like Strawberry.
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.
I totally agree --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."
. 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.'
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.'
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It's great fun, but coral!? I want coral.
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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.
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.
Oh my goodness.... LOL!!
I was happy with the inclusion of cerulean as I've used that one before.
What colour is coral?? I can't place it.
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.
@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.
Mocha is there also, which is good, I can sleep now.
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Oh aye, so there is! What's it doing in THERE? I reckon the Fiery is more like a true coral.
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I'm just not sure what to say right now...
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?
Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing upI 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
I just think it's the most bad*ss way of saying "blue" ever.
NO. Dear lord save me from ever writing a line like that in one of my books.
Mine was burnt siennaRandom fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up
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Me TOOOO!!Random fun fact: The only reason I know what color cerulean is, is because it was my #1 favorite crayon growing up
I miss the old Crayola colors.
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I'm so picky! It's "fuchsia". Does anyone in the colony possess an actual colour memory?
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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
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
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rceive-colour-didn-t-word-say-scientists.html
Thanks, Carol. Great resource, that.
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