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Colors that have beautiful names

I have book called The Secret Lives of Color. There are a multitude of colors that have beautiful names.

Colors that have beautiful names
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    1. Isabelline

    This color is a pallid yellowish color.

    2. Orpiment

    Orpiment is "a handsome yellow more closely resembling gold than any other color."

    3. Minium

    Bright orange-red that is close to vermilion and cinnabar.

    4. Mountbatten Pink

    Mountbatten Pink is a medium gray with a dash of Vermilion red.

    5. Rosso Corsa

    Rosso corsa is racing red.

    6. Tyrian purple

    Ideally, according to Pliny, the color of clotted blood. A deep purple.

    7. Woad

    A resonant blue. Used by the Celts to paint themselves.

    8. Scheele's Green

    A beautiful and brilliant green

    9. Russet

    "russet cloth could be any color ranging from dun through to brown or gray."

    10. Payne's Gray

    A gray with "atmospheric perspective....Think of hills and mountains fading off into the distance." Deep blue-black gray.

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