Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: S Through Z

By evad // April 9, 2009

With a little help from the Phrontistery and a colors study series by CLmember Miaki, we've put together a guide to lesser-known color vocabulary.

	black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
	orange-yellow
	grey-green colour
	bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red
	deep pure blue

	flesh-coloured
	fine brown
	preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour
	dull dark blue-grey
	deep blue
	emerald green
	purplish red
	reddish-brown; light chestnut
	chestnut-coloured
	coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red colour
	strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured
	light beige
	bright yellow
	tawny brown
	brownish-grey
	brownish-yellow
	greenish-blue
	reddish-brown
	of or having a hard shell; brick-red
	pale yellowish-green
	red-gold or reddish-brown
	dark yellow
	blue-green
	deep blue
	brownish red
	bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver
	bright red
	wine-coloured
	deep red; burgundy
	violet-coloured
	bluish purple
	becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour
	green
	chrome green
	bright yellow
	yellowish-red
	pale blue
	the golden colour of ripe wheat
	off-white
	of the colour of willow leaves
	yellow; yellowish
	chrome green

See the rest of the alphabet: A - C, D - L, M - R, S - Z.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.

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RobotWisdom

Posted Apr 9, 2009

I'd like to see a layout of these words written in their own colors, sorted by shade rather than alphabetical, so that I can scan for near neighbors...?

e_to_the_m

Posted Apr 9, 2009

So that makes tan a brownish-yellow brown? ;)
These are great, thank you.

Miaka

Posted Apr 9, 2009

RobotWisdom I did them in the order I found them (which is the featured website at the top). I learned a lot about these colors and their origins. However, since I was doing them alphabetically (according to the site), I didn't have a chance to sort them by shade. I'll consider it for future projects though.

e_to_the_m, I went into this project and realized most of the exact colors I wanted were already taken. So some of these aren't the exact shade as I wanted. However, I tried to make them as accurate as possible to their name/description with the help ofvarious website, like wikipedia..

Thank you CL for showcasing my work, I feel honored! And thank you to all the lovers for supporting this project and loving it (you're all so good to me)!!

Lastly, my favorite color of the project is in this bunch, it's Zinnober. I have no idea if that's what chrome green is supposed to look like, but I had a neon green envisioned for it from the start :)

<333

ricster

Posted Apr 9, 2009

Miaka, you know I think you rock!

Once again, I'm glad to see you receive credit for this amazing resource that you've provided for us. Although I've said it to you before, this gives just another opportunity to say it publicly, for all of us-- Thank you!

<3