Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Color Name Game



It may be Crayola's fault. It's totally self-indulgence. Why did it have to go make crayons past the "basic eight" (I just named it like that)?

Now we have just too many names, like:
Chartreuse
Cerulean
Sienna
Magenta
Periwinkle
Fuchsia
Vermilion
Carmine
Cyan
Mauve
Alazarin Crimson
Ultramarine
Puce
Phthalocyanine Green
Dioxazine Purple
Hooker's Green
Raw Sienna
Napthol Crimson
Payne's Gray
Ivory Black
Azure
Titanium White
Eggshell
Oxblood
Bay
Sap Green
Bimini
Cadmium Yellow
Mars Black
Fawn
Kiwi
Plum Crazy
Turquoise!
Indigo
Burnt Umber
periwinkle green
Purple Mountian Majsty
Burnt Sienna
Brick Red

I mean, color did add color to color-naming, I can tell you that.

P.S. And just as an aside, I guess it was better to name a color than just compare it and say colorer than color. Because then, we'd just have two degrees of a hue, and that just ain't enough.

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