Sure, color does make up a big part of our world, so it's probably important enough for an encyclopedia article, but Wikipedia's entry on colors links to a list of colors which just proves yet again that Wikipedia is either the most impressive collection of knowledge our species has ever gathered or a giant mess of minutia that has so much crap as to be effectively useless.Sure, there are the pretty standard colors like red, blue, and green - even those aren't exactly without debate - but then we get into the slightly less well-known colors like...
- Davy's Grey - which is described as being a greeny grey colour
- amaranth - a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant
- carmine - a particularly deep red color that apparently has seven different named sub-carmines
- tenné - a "stain", a rarely used tincture, an orangish brown colour
- zinnwaldite - a color that resembles the mineral zinnwaldite
- gamboge - a rather transparent dark mustard yellow pigment
- cosmic latte - the name assigned to the color of the universe, given by a team of astronomers
- cerise - a deep to vivid purplish red
Plus they also have a list of every Crayola crayon color ever.
Image courtesy of BombaCarta.
4 comments:
If you want to see a list of pointless colors, just grab a handful of paintchips. They pay people to come up with these stupid names.
Your comment about the internet being a collection of useless minutia reminded me of an article in the July/August issue if The Atlantic that asked the question, "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" Its a pretty awesome article.
I wonder if Eddie Vedder knows that the Crayola company retired "lemon yellow?"
Mr Echt...I once saw a stdy showing that the letter that seemed to determine the sales of a paint color was p. More p's meant a better selling color.
Clearly important information.
As long as they keep "yellow leadbetter" in, Calen, we're all good.
I'll check the article, Craig.
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