Are you colorblind?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

You know, there are more words in the English language to describe colors other that green, blue, red, yellow, brown, black and white.

Of course there are. I just don't use them. 8 is an exaggeration but unless a highly technical conversation requires specificity a relatively small number will do. And I generally know what color is meant by the fancy names. I'm mostly be cantankerous.

But I do get annoyed when I say "that is orange" and the response is "no its not, it is tangerine." Besides, it eventually gets to something like the hyper-genretization of music. Just converse in wavelengths or CMYK values and then at least everybody can agree with absolute certainty on what the color means.

I blame Sherwin Williams and their desire to be able to trademark color names.

[Kevy Baby]

One thing that the printing industry got right is the Pantone Matching System (with the unfortunate acronym) for colors. With only rare exceptions (reflex blue, etc), every color is a number.

So colors are PMS 185 (which is a red), PMS 165 (orange), etc.

And of course, colors on a screen can be broken down into RGB values.

[Cadaverous Pallor]