Soooooo......

[Chernabog]

^^ Just don't get in the habit of calling her Jesus H. Christ behind her back, or it might get back to her.

[Alex]

I often joke that I'm a typical guy in that there are only eight colors and women are being silly when they pretend there are more. Which is of course exaggeration. I know there are more colors, I just mean that I don't see any real value in naming each possible variation in wavelength.

So it isn't that when someone says "chartreuse" I don't know what it means, it is just that in my head I replace it with "on the yellow side of green."

Anyway, I had reason to be looking at the Crayola page listing all 135 colors they've ever officially had (some are different names for the same thing, there are currently 120 colors) and I realized that there were quite a few I can't even begin to guess in what area of a color wheel they'd fall:

Beaver - Some kind of brown. Possibly pink.
Bittersweet - The color of melancholia.
Blizzard Blue - I assume this is actually a blue color. But maybe just white? Like Blizzard Orange would be?
Cerise - Pink, the color of dead lambs.
Cotton Candy - Standard cotton candy colors: pink, blue, white.
Inch Worm - At least where I grew up, inch worms came in several different colors (and level of hairiness).
Jazzberry Jam - I hope "jazzberry" isn't a real thing.
Outer Space - Well, I assume this is black, but I have no idea how it might differ from the black that already exists.
Periwinkle - Periwikles are little river slugs that create a crusty coat of river gravel. We used them as bait when fishing as a kid.
Razzmatazz - I assume this is what you get when you juice a jazzberry.
Timber Wolf - The color of Kevin Garnett?

ETA: And just looking it up I learn (or, more likley, relearn) that what we called periwinkles are the larval stage of caddisflies. And that in other parts of the country periwinkles are a type snail. Still don't know what color I'd call them.

[Alex]

Oh, and if I'm wrong about what chartreuse is, don't correct me. Because I won't remember. I'm a manly man, there are only eight colors.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

I often joke that I'm a typical guy in that there are only eight colors and women are being silly when they pretend there are more. Which is of course exaggeration. I know there are more colors, I just mean that I don't see any real value in naming each possible variation in wavelength.

Of course naming colors is silly when there is an accurate, quantifiable numbering system known as the Pantone Matching System with the unfortunate acronym).

[JWBear]

"Is it grape, or is it aubergine?"

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

"Is it grape, or is it aubergine?"

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[katiesue]

Periwinkle is my favorite crayola color

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Periwinkle is my favorite crayola color

The color Macaroni and Cheese always makes me giggle and then want some Mac and Cheese.

[Not Afraid]

As someone who loves color (and color names) I will translate for you:


Beaver - A dusky deep brown with a hint of grey
Bittersweet - A deep, rich, dark brown.
Blizzard Blue - A pale icy blue - think of the blue ice of a glacier
Cerise - A deep, reddish pink (this is an actual color name akin in it's obscurity as Cerulean is to blue)

Cotton Candy - Cotton Candy is pink, you fool.
Inch Worm - I would guess a deep lime green with a hint of yellow
Jazzberry Jam - Even I can't figure out what this is - maybe deep reddish purple?
Outer Space - I would asume it is black with specks of metallic white mixed in
Periwinkle - No, a Periwinkle is an English flower that is a medium hued blue with a hint of purple. This is a pretty common color name.

Razzmatazz - Who knows. The color-namers were on drugs that day.
Timber Wolf - a medium grey-brown

Hope that helped.

[Kevy Baby]

And I can almost guaranteee that each person looking at these samples on their computer is seeing each color just a little differently than everyone else.