What is your favorite name for a color?

[Que]

Bonus points if you hate the color, but dig the name.

Chartreuse and periwinkle are all fun to say, but I wouldn't paint anything those colors.

Are you burnt over umber?

Crimson about vermillion?

 

[Tryharder62]

Maroon!

 

[Wats_butthole]

Are you prancing about panties again?

 

[adrina]

Are you prancing about panties again?

Stop. Every thread? C'mon now. There's got to be more to post about.





I'm a particular fan of scarlet.

I think the name azure is funny.

And I don't like the color name of mauve or taupe at all.

 

[Que]

Are you prancing about panties again?

Can I buy a chiffon preposition?

I feel like Elle Talbot would be good at this.

 

[Que]

I'm a particular fan of scarlet.

I think the name azure is funny.

And I don't like the color name of mauve or taupe at all.

Both mauve and taupe sound like you're mispronouncing them. We Americans probably are. That was a whole thread recently.

 

[adrina]

Both mauve and taupe sound like you're mispronouncing them. We Americans probably are. That was a whole thread recently.

I don't like the word bucolic either. I think it sounds nothing like its definition.

I know it's off the color topic, but I'm not too worried about being on topic right now.

 

[Libsam]

Color is subjective!

Color Blind Lives Matter!

 

[Que]

I don't like the word bucolic either. I think it sounds nothing like its definition.

I know it's off the color topic, but I'm not too worried about being on topic right now.

No thread topic on the GB survives first contact with the GB. On-topic posts are whimsey.

 

[trysail]

Fuchsia

Carmine

Amazon

Celadon

Claret

Cornflower

Cyan

Daffodil

Aquamarine

Amethyst

Lavender

Ultramarine

Vermillion

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Hunter Green

Indigo

Macaroni And Cheese

Ocean Blue

Onyx

Opal

Outrageous Orange

Pink Flamingo

Razzmatazz

Red Devil

Sea Green

Sizzling Sunrise

Topaz

Verdigris




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[shezaqt]

How about puce?

 

[Que]

<Somebody> got the 128 crayolas box.

Verdigris is outstanding!

I have no idea what that color is but I'm definitely working it into conversation sometime.

 

[Que]

How about puce?

Another one that would be fun to work into conversation. It sounds like it should be revolting. I'm not exactly sure that is, either.

 

[Que]

Actual automotive paint colors include burple and screamin' yellow Zonkers

 

[adrina]

What color is "fuzzy wuzzy"? https://i.imgur.com/4SiBbTn.gif

 

[Super-Surprise]

Wild Blueberry Bash

 

[trysail]

What color is "fuzzy wuzzy"? https://i.imgur.com/4SiBbTn.gif

Hex Code #87421F

RGB 135 66 31
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[shezaqt]

Actual automotive paint colors include burple and screamin' yellow Zonkers

If you think those are good, you should turn over some nail polish bottles sometime!

Personally I am a fan of "I'm not really a waitress red"

 

[adrina]

Hex Code #87421F

RGB 135 66 31
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https://www.beautycolorcode.com/871f30.png

That doesn't look very fuzzy wuzzy.

 

[adrina]

If you think those are good, you should turn over some nail polish bottles sometime!

Personally I am a fan of "I'm not really a waitress red"

That's oddly very similar to fuzzy wuzzy.

 

[Que]

What color is "fuzzy wuzzy"? https://i.imgur.com/4SiBbTn.gif

Odd name for someone who (as I understand it) wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

Wild Blueberry Bash

That name brings back one of those olefactory memories. I can smell the caramelization of the sugar crystals on top of the blueberry muffins.

If you think those are good, you should turn over some nail polish bottles sometime!

Personally I am a fan of "I'm not really a waitress red"

When I was young I painted my friends 1970 Volkswagen squareback. We stripped it all the way down to bare metal and rather than painting at the original probably sealing wax red he went through dozens and dozens of pages of paint chip samples at Space age, our automotive paint store. If I were him I would have just gone for Porsche guards red but he pick something that wasn't too far from that.

The girl behind the counter said oh that would make a great shade of lipstick!

Hex Code #87421F

RGB 135 66 31
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Nerd!

 

[shezaqt]

That's oddly very similar to fuzzy wuzzy.

Fuzzy Wuzzy, while cute, just lacks the appropriate trampiness (I am declaring that a word) for a truly great red.

When I was young I painted my friends 1970 Volkswagen squareback. We stripped it all the way down to bare metal and rather than painting at the original probably sealing wax red he went through dozens and dozens of pages of paint chip samples at Space age, our automotive paint store. If I were him I would have just gone for Porsche guards red but he pick something that wasn't too far from that.

The girl behind the counter said oh that would make a great shade of lipstick!

!

Naturally. It's why women are the driving force behind car purchase decisions. It's ALL about the colour.

 

[Not Normal]

Actual automotive paint colors include burple and screamin' yellow Zonkers

Speaking of car colors, I always thought SubLime was cool.

https://www.allpar.com/photos/concept-cars/sema-2014/dodge/dodge-challenger.jpg

 

[adrina]

Fuzzy Wuzzy, while cute, just lacks the appropriate trampiness (I am declaring that a word) for a truly great red.

I have no problem with trampiness as a word. And I agree, fuzzy wuzzy is too cutesy wootsy for a vivid red.

 

[Que]

Speaking of car colors, I always thought SubLime was cool.

https://www.allpar.com/photos/concept-cars/sema-2014/dodge/dodge-challenger.jpg

I didn't know they had brought that back they also brought back what is it plum crazy or Plum Loco something like that that's a great color name, too.