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- purrp, on 10/10/2007, -7/+40Good guide, but it ignores one basic fact:
I'm a guy. - dicerandom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Translation...
Ivory: White
Beige: Brown
Wheat: Brown
Tan: Brown
Khaki: Brown
Silver: Silver
Gray: Grey
Charcoal: Grey
Navy Blue: Blue
Royal Blue: Blue
Medium Blue: Blue
Azure: Blue
Cyan: Blue
Aquamarine: Blue
Teal: Blue
Forest Green: Green
Olive: Green
Chartreuse: Green
Lime: Green
Golden: Yellow
Goldenrod: Orange
Coral: Pink
Salmon: Pink
Hot Pink: Pink
Fuschia: Pink
Puce: Pink
Muave: Pink
Lavendar: Purple
Plum: Purple
Indigo: Purple
Maroon: Red
Crimson: Red - djepik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Great reference! Also,
Coral in the water: http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/sevcik/coral--koral-3.jpg
Coral on a dress: http://www.labelspree.com/store/assets/daszign/stellaforest/sf-jr0057crl-fnt.jpg - Renton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Just say you're a web designer that doesn't feel like typing in hex.
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Interesting. The description is great.
- adrianmonk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I took an intro to linguistics class in college. One of the things we discussed was so-called "language universals". These are features that are present in all (or nearly all, or most) languages. Because they are common elements even in languages that developed independently, the idea is that they probably tell us something about how the human mind works.
Turns out there are a number of language universals relating to color, and one of them is that in almost all languages, women tend to know more of the words for colors than men do. It's not that men are physically unable to see as many colors (although more men are colorblind). I think it's just that men don't bother to learn the names of the colors. - FatalTragedy316, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Yeah, because mixing up colors is the most socially damaging mistake you can make in your life...
/sarcasm - Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Interesting. I was looking at those colors and said, "*****. Chartreuse is yellow!" So, I looked it up and found out that what I used to think of as chartreuse has been renamed as chartreuse yellow, and the new color called chartreuse is actually a green color.
- Niomi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I always thought crimson was a more saturated, deep red. Not pinky-red.
- batcam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Good guide, but they had one flaw I noticed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but their cyan had CMYK values of 52, 0, 13, 0, respectively. Technically, it should have CMYK values of 100, 0, 0, 0 since the "C" in CYMK is, indeed, cyan.
- MEGAFLICKS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"Look at it, it's not pink. It's like uh... a lightish red."
"Guess what? They already have a color for lightish red. You know what it's called? Pink." - michaelschmitt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I was reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this evening and came across the color "heliotrope". It wasn't on this list, but Wikipedia had it, of course. They also noted the "heliotrope" reference in the book.
- PrometheusPV, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7the problem is theres no good way to see if the colors on the screen actually look that way unless you have a color calibrated monitor = the issue with online shopping... "Wait I thought this was red...."
- PiratePanties, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3LOL I'm really glad I'm not the only one who thought that. I distinctly remember my chartreuse crayon (from that lovely box of 80's neon colors) to be electric-pee yellow. =)
- VigilanteP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When will people figure it out. Duggmirror never works, ever. It only catches the stories that never go down.
You could at least check the link before submitting it you know. - sean9812, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Great guide! just takes a while to load
but i'll just stick to the normal red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, and brown when I'm talking about colors
-sorry about the last comment I'm just impatient - TubbyCat, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Is anyone else besides me confused on how this got dugg?
:s - dxprog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What happened to colors like Skin Flesh, Ripped Denim Blue or Hairspry Yellow?
- Kazanoe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yellow, Red, Blue, Green.
All the colours I need.
EDIT: Black and white are colours too! - tribble222, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Chartreuse: The only liqueur good enough to have a color named after it
- therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2no. you're just lazy. try harder.
- k3nt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ah, I definitely learned a few new ones.
Also, I never knew "Golden" was so yellow. So now I'm kind of wondering what DiGiorno means by "Golden Brown" crust... - krakdaddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always thought puce was greenish...
I fail as a girl. - MrFisty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not as lame as picking on people in a thread about colour names. Get over yourself.
- akinser, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3"Are you tired of the other kids at Summer Color Camp laughing at you because you thought chartreuse was a shade of pink?" - no.
"Still having nightmares about the time you called a Salmon colored dress Mauve?" - no.
yet why am i still reading this? - Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2They might have stolen the idea, but remember this:
The technology industry isn't about original ideas. It's about who does those ideas the best. - tito13kfm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black are the only colors I need..
and light cyan, and light magenta, and 2 shades of gray on occasion. - Silthrim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm gonna go sit in a corner... I'm colorblind.
- therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2its named after a drink which is named after a region/mountain range. the drink is quite green.
- Pthalio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you're Canadian or British that is the correct spelling of colour
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1same, crimson is ment to be blood colour'd (colored for u usa)
- whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Summer Color Camp? I feel gay just imagining it.
- OwdenBowden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you also have a link to the Coral in a dress on the floor?
- Scoobies, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No violet?
- Eugenis, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1Aquamarine is not only a color :)
http://jewelry-newsline.com/articles/jewelry-arts/ ... - AkiraXXX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I think we all know who got a "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy" DVD set!
- injury0314, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1RGB values are way easier to remember.
- squirmel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Agreed. Cyan is 100 0 0 0, and also called Process Blue. I remember this bright aqua color being called cyan on old computers, like on the Commodore 64 color palette. I guess we are looking at two different definitions of "the opposite of red"; i.e., in pigments (subtractive), "process cyan" absorbs red light, whereas on screen (additive), "electric cyan" sets Red phosphors to 0, emitting only 100% of Blue and Green. I've never heard a graphic designer refer to that bright aqua color as Cyan, but i guess engineers, web-only designers, and maybe video people might. c.f. wkipedia.... On a more subjective note, I'll also take issue with fuchsia: it should be darker, and more saturated, like a dark magenta, like the flower named fuschsia.
- thomashauk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0No White?
- woodcoxcb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2no they aren't! they're just the absence or the convergence of color.
and yellow is poor man's green. - thomashauk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0There are some in the coments....
- blackflagtent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0what about taupe?
- solemnraven, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Lavender misspelled.
Thanks - dawnofdigital, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0whats the difference between navy blue and indigo?
- PureForm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You're SO welcome! What would they do without you??? Thank god you were here :-D
- therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1but IT is actually named after mountains
- ecparkin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0or beige
- capran, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This is just what I was thinking...besides the obvious "now I've seen everything....a website devoted to color snobs."
They even use the spelling of "coloUr". - crash128, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I think I just puced.
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