Colors that have beautiful names
I have book called The Secret Lives of Color. There are a multitude of colors that have beautiful names.
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1. Isabelline
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This color is a pallid yellowish color.
2. Orpiment
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Orpiment is "a handsome yellow more closely resembling gold than any other color."
3. Minium
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Bright orange-red that is close to vermilion and cinnabar.
4. Mountbatten Pink
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Mountbatten Pink is a medium gray with a dash of Vermilion red.
5. Rosso Corsa
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Rosso corsa is racing red.
6. Tyrian purple
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Ideally, according to Pliny, the color of clotted blood. A deep purple.
7. Woad
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A resonant blue. Used by the Celts to paint themselves.
8. Scheele's Green
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A beautiful and brilliant green
9. Russet
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"russet cloth could be any color ranging from dun through to brown or gray."
10. Payne's Gray
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A gray with "atmospheric perspective....Think of hills and mountains fading off into the distance." Deep blue-black gray.
