![]() ![]() If you need vastly more violets, below are 11 additional names. Lots of baby names in this one! Mauve, Violet, Iris and Heather. You might want to learn what your Favorite Color says about you. This is my favorite color panel! What’s yours? Not the perfect pink? Below are 11 different pink names.Ĭlick to find pink hex codes for these 20. ![]() Really need reds? There are 16 more ravishing red names below!Ĭlick to find all 20 red hex codes and RGB values.Īnd then learn about the red color meaning. Opt for the optimal orange by learning the color meaning of orange. Here are 9 different names, plus you can click to see all 20 orange color codes for the names below, with swatches. More fun! Learn more about the yellow color meaning. Click to find all 20 yellow color codes for the ones listed below. So let’s get evocative with these creative color names!ĥ0 more white names on this page of 70 color codes for white.īrighter colors below! Or find similar colors on this page of gold color codes. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red.įrom The Color Thesaurus by Ingrid Sundberg. Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow. One of my ongoing word collections is of colors. Ingrid has purple hair – or perhaps I should say amethyst! She’s a YA writer and children’s book illustrator who says: These are pretty and inspiring for creatives, like writers, artists, and fashion designers. Now there are 349 color names.Īnd not the eye-popping, fluorescent, old-school web 1.0 shades of color you’ll find on many sites. Plus I’ve added more, with links to their hex codes and RGB values. and 20 blacks – or names for black, anyway! Most appear to be the same inky hue.20 color names for gray shades and tints.20 deep, bright, and light red color names. ![]() She’s come up with 20 different shades of white… as well as: I know you love color, so I wanted to share it with you! (See the exhaustive article of Schade Altdeutsches Wbuch, 1363.If you’re in search of more creative and unique color names than the basic “red” or “blue,” you’re in luck! Here’s a cool color names infographic by Ingrid Sundberg. The first to try to identify it with any known stone was apparently Albertus Magnus (1205-1282), who may have had in view some form of the stone to which the name is now given. Beda but to none of them was it more than a traditional name, about which there clustered notions originally derived from Pliny with an accretion of later fables. The carchedonius or chalcedonius is mentioned and moralized upon by a whole catena of writers, including esp. In interpreting the name in the Vulgate, which has the variant form carcedonious, the early writers identified it with a stone mentioneed by Pliny xxvii, where MSS have the variants carchedonia, charcedonia, calcedonia, calchedonia, carchedonius, said to be found in North Africa, and to be brought by way of Carthage, which, from the description, could have nothing to do with the chalcedony of the moderns. chalcedonious of Chalcedon in Asia Minor, as if it were 'Chalcedonian stone,' but this is very doubtful. is commonly assumed to be the same as the adj. The name of the precious stone forming the third foundation of the New Jerusalem, but found nowhere else ![]()
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