{"id":86,"date":"2006-12-15T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-12-15T08:03:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T08:03:53","slug":"color-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2006\/12\/color-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"visibonelab70.gif\"This is another one of many wonderful color tools available on the web for\u00a0understanding RGB<\/a>\u00a0and CMY.<\/p>\n

Even though it is outdated – computers are not limited to 256 colors like they used to be – I like it because it shows the RGB, CMY and hex codes for the original websafe colors,\u00a0plus it allows you to create a nifty contrast table with a palette of eight colors.\u00a0Play time!\u00a0The contrast table ends up looking\u00a0a lot\u00a0like an exercise we will be doing with the clay.<\/p>\n

I also like it because it gives every color a\u00a0name as well as a number. The names are different from the standard\u00a0 x11 <\/font><\/u>color names.<\/a>\u00a0Just one of the many ways to name colors.<\/p>\n

“Obscure weak green”, the\u00a0dark green,\u00a0doesn’t exactly bring an image to mind but it is useful once you become\u00a0familiar with the\u00a0naming strategy\u00a0of this chart. See if you can analyze the system by clicking on lots of colors.<\/p>\n

Naming colors is always a challenge because there is no universal standard. The closest thing in English\u00a0might be the NBS<\/a> system of modifiers. The\u00a0whole list of NBS colors<\/a> gives you some idea of how hard it is to\u00a0name every possible color.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We can\u00a0identify\u00a0small differences in color so well that\u00a0we see millions of colors. Even thought there is not a universal naming standard, I like to break it down into three types of naming strategies.<\/p>\n

Scientific\u00a0(b0ring but understandable) stategies like the one used for ColorAid paper<\/a>, start with the\u00a0name of the\u00a0hue (color family)\u00a0and then modify the name with adjectives like “tint”, “shade”, “pastel”, etc.\u00a0Naming the intermediaries is especially confusing since for some people “Blue Violet” is more\u00a0blue than\u00a0violet and for others it is more\u00a0violet than blue.<\/p>\n

Poetic strategies rely on associations, “Sky Blue”, “Cornflower”, “Pacific Blue” etc. Most of the fashion and home dec color names fall into this category. The Plochere system<\/a>,based on the Ostwald\u00a0color space, is one such system that has been used for years\u00a0by decorators. Very subjective.<\/p>\n

Pigment strategies. Artists have their own names for colors based on the pigments used to make the colors. More on that later.<\/p>\n

The most commonly used systems in industry, Pantone and Munsell, are very expensive so they can’t be used for common everyday color references.\u00a0 So we are back to our crayons.<\/p>\n

If you\u00a0want a headstart on\u00a0Monday’s tutorial, divide your crayons into those with scientific names, poetic names and pigment names. Do you agree with all the names? If not, what would you call them.<\/p>\n

BTW – Notice that Violet is the only one with a parenthetical name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another one of many wonderful color tools available on the web for\u00a0understanding RGB\u00a0and CMY. Even though it is outdated – computers are not limited to 256 colors like they used to be – I like it because it shows the RGB, CMY and hex codes for the original websafe colors,\u00a0plus it allows you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}