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March 28th, 2008
Fancy color names or Royal Blue
It all started when our client wrote, seemingly as an afterthought: “Please change the color of the icon to royal blue”. To tell you the truth, this request struck me as rather unusual. We have dark blue, light blue and ordinary blue, but no royal blue that I knew about. So I did some research.
It turns out that for centuries there has been a whole list of names for colors and hues, and some of them are rather amusing:
Why not use these names more widely in professional design lingo? Forget soulless letters and digits like #C41E3A and R:196 G:30 B: 58, instead use a beautiful name like ‘cardinal’. It would make poetry out of designer speak. For example: “I think that the combination of light cherry text and a chartreuse background will make this composition very special. If we add some jade spots as accents, this whole thing will surely rock.”
Source: turbomilk
Posted by: Trevor
Comments (4)
I'd have always described that blue as Royal Blue, anyway.
Posted by: OldBoy 98 days ago
I like those funny names as well. The retail industry and aerosol can-manufacturers amongst others use names like these about colour all the time. I guess its partly to have interesting names, but also because they have a limited range in their collection . Somes names are just weird while others kinda make sense. Montana spraycans have sky blue which is nice.
Posted by: TinSoldier 97 days ago
names come from artist oil colours, I bet
Posted by: eln 97 days ago
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