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Jon Szanto
June 5th, 2013, 02:47 PM
File for future use:

3272
BikerBabe
June 5th, 2013, 03:40 PM
Hey! I'm female, and I have never understood the need for those silly color names like "avocado", "eggshell", and the rest. :D
Tracy Lee
June 5th, 2013, 05:12 PM
Seriously? Who gets by without gillyflower? Duh, absolutely necessary color. :p You guys don't know what your missing on the spectrum.
ardgedee
June 5th, 2013, 07:05 PM
My wife has asked me how I could have an academic and professional background in visual arts and graphic design, and still only refer to colors by "blue", "green", etc.

It's because if we want specificity, we use Pantone numbers or product indexes. Very accurate. "Eggplant" is too vague; there are all kinds of eggplants, and I've never seen one that looks like a color sample labeled "eggplant". Pantone 5915 C (http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx) is going to mean exactly the same thing to everybody with a Pantone coated stock book.
Heliotrope
June 5th, 2013, 10:54 PM
"Pink? Pink? Well, what’s wrong with pink? Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think. Does it matter what color? Well, that gets a nope, be it pink, purple or heliotrope."

from the Pixar short film Boundin'


But seriously, are there no poets among us?
Nonsensical
June 6th, 2013, 02:45 AM
How is lavender a part of pink anyway?
Farmboy
June 6th, 2013, 08:16 AM
Jon,

Some refer to the problem we share as color blindness. Others call it color stupid.

For years I didn't know Navy blue wasn't another name for black. I suppose it is a good thing I'm no longer allowed to wear shorts to work...

There is a support group for those that need help. I've suggested on a number of occasions that FarmGirl attend. She still insists my socks don't match.
kps
June 6th, 2013, 08:24 AM
How is lavender a part of pink anyway?

The original (http://thedoghousediaries.com/1406) classed it as purple.
Marsilius
June 6th, 2013, 01:49 PM
My daughter asks what kind of list does not have fuchsia?
menunes
June 6th, 2013, 02:30 PM
No Beije?
kps
June 6th, 2013, 09:12 PM
My daughter asks what kind of list does not have fuchsia?

The report on XKCD's colour survey (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) explains this: no one can spell it.


No Beije?

Or indeed Baige (op. cit.).
Jon Szanto
June 6th, 2013, 09:45 PM
Bonus to kps. XKCD rocks, as usual!
Marsilius
June 6th, 2013, 10:11 PM
The report on XKCD's colour survey (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) explains this: no one can spell it.


No Beije?


I know, right?



(Beige in English, but you knew that!)
Beije is Portuguese?
pencils+pens
June 7th, 2013, 05:35 AM
I think puce belongs on the left side, I have no idea what it is.

I'm surprised squant (http://www.negativland.com/archives/015squant/story.html) isn't in the list.
menunes
June 7th, 2013, 07:06 AM
The report on XKCD's colour survey (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) explains this: no one can spell it.


No Beije?

Or indeed Baige (op. cit.).

I had no idea about that report. In portuguese the spelling would be Bege. Didn't know about the american spelling "baige".
Annie
June 13th, 2013, 03:12 PM
Where is magnolia? My whole house is this colour, apart from the kitchen. And my bedroom. Then there's the bathroom. I still want magnolia. I'm a girl, so I want it.
CS388
June 13th, 2013, 05:18 PM
So, no black pens for men or women?

(Or should I say 'noir'? Or jet? Or moontar? etc etc.)
Jon Szanto
June 13th, 2013, 05:52 PM
So, no black pens for men or women?
An obvious statistical polling error.
dr.grace
June 13th, 2013, 10:56 PM
Where is magnolia? My whole house is this colour, apart from the kitchen. And my bedroom. Then there's the bathroom. I still want magnolia. I'm a girl, so I want it.

LOL, I recall a UK TV series on interior design whose principal expert lamented the idea that, in Britain, all walls are supposed to be painted with that colour.
ethernautrix
June 14th, 2013, 11:44 AM
What's more hilarious than "men and women are different?" And what's the deal with color blindness, hah? Haaah? Colors in braille? Hah? Haaah? Try the veal, et cetera!
MisterBoll
June 14th, 2013, 12:10 PM
Coming from a design background - Pantone is king.

For giggles you'll need a mid-60's paint sample book.
79spitfire
June 16th, 2013, 10:09 AM
I don't see mauve.....
Annie
June 24th, 2013, 03:41 PM
Jon,

Some refer to the problem we share as color blindness. Others call it color stupid.

For years I didn't know Navy blue wasn't another name for black. I suppose it is a good thing I'm no longer allowed to wear shorts to work...

There is a support group for those that need help. I've suggested on a number of occasions that FarmGirl attend. She still insists my socks don't match.

Only just spotted this and it reminded me of a conversation with my son this weekend. He shares a flat with another chap and they have given up on socks that match. They now have a multi-purpose sock basket in which all socks that come out of the dryer just get smoothed out and chucked in the sock basket. Even 'overnight guests' who leave laundry items behind...all random clean socks end up in the sock basket. It works well for them and might explain why he was wearing one rather conservative blue sock and the other was pink, with a 'Little Miss Naughty' pink logo on it. The criteria is 'I'll wear it if it's clean.' Seems colour matching is optional.