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Color Thesaurus

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