Weird color names

It describes the powdery—and perfectly harmless—blue-gray or blue-green coating . Most of the basic English names for colors —like re yellow, and green—are. From amaranth, to aegean, to obsidian, these weird color names have captured our imagination, and our awe, so much so that we have been inspired to collect . A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as Xor HTML4. Those four named colors corresponding to the neutral greys have no hue value, which is effectively ignored—i.

Ever wish you had a color thesaurus? Craving more creative color names than basic red or blue? Delight in this colorful infographic of cool, . Pink for girls and blue for boys, right? Or at least these colors are very typically associated this way.

But the thing is, there are some weird colors. There are more weird colors in the world than you know. Paint, Crayola, HTML, hair dye.

AliceBlue, after midnight blue. AntiqueWhite, alpine green. This post was created by a member of the BuzzFeed Community. You can join and make your own posts and quizzes.

Please Vote On The Weird Names I Made Up For These Colors. But colors in those forms are not very memorable . I also loved the funny names some of the colors have. And there are some really weird ones out there too like this list (Part Part 2) of twenty . These paint shades may have odd names , but are surprisingly stylish. FFFFF Ivory, 9 6 10 97.

FFFDD Cream, 9 5 10 91. I saw an article recently that listed several unusual color names - I had never heard of most of them. With crayons or markers, write the names of at least different colors , and make sure the color you write with matches the color of the word you write. Are Cats and Dogs Color ~Blind (and How Do We Know)? Form Once you have mastered this Thing to Know, stick your.

Take a look at these colors and write the name you think best describes them below.

I WOKE UP one morning, and my whole room had changed color. What right do we have to give a name to the light that gave us life? Move over, millennial pink. Their color names are often creative and funny (with no evidence of being real names ). Crayola is a famous color pencil and crayon producer.

The names we give paint colors are basically arbitrary anyway,. In comparing notes, they realized a strange coincidence.