Overly Descriptive Color Palettes, or Hiya, Jerking Grapefruit!
April 3, 2020 12:42 AM   Subscribe

Do you wish your Crayola box were populated with Ungentlemanly Light Grey and Unauspicious Lilac? Colors.lol has you covered.

Love colors but hate that their names are so boring? Would your day be more robust if you were offered up a platter of Tuppeny Deep Pink with sides of Extrovert Darkish Pink and Banging Pastel Pink? Do you suspect that you'd be much more creative if you had a palette of Scrapping Lipstick, Rewarding Raw Umber, and Self-Respecting Gold?

In each palette on the page, you get three colors, the HEX code for each, and a layout that might make a lovely flag if you were creating your own country. There's a link to view or share just that one palette, and yes, the color names are overly descriptive, but not particularly accurate. (I'm not sure that the Syncarpus Candy Pink is any more candy-like or syncarpus-y than any other pink. But you can judge for yourself.) There's even a filter on the page if you just want to look at shades of your preferred hue.

According to the site's About page, these overly descriptive color palettes were:

Created as a fun way to discover interesting color combinations. Palettes are hand-selected from the Twitter bot @colorschemez. The feed randomly generates color combinations as well as their descriptions, with each color being matched with an adjective from a list of over 20,000 words.

Created by Adam Fuhrer.


If these aren't enough, head over to the @colorschemez Twitter account for an hourly update of offerings. As this FPP was being created, additions included Gastronomic Sand Brown, Torrential Lemon Lime, Heptagonal Denim, and Telautographic Leafy Green.

Whether this contributes to your art or your amusement, only Criticisable Baby Poo knows for sure.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese (8 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
Jerking grapefruit? That brings back memories...
posted by groda at 5:57 AM on April 3, 2020


We bought a two-flat a few years ago. Nearly every room is painted Sherwin Williams Realist Beige. My wife wants to repaint. I said it's just a color and won't make much difference, one way or the other.
posted by hydrophonic at 7:09 AM on April 3, 2020 [2 favorites]


Listen to your wife, hydrophonic.
posted by sjswitzer at 7:41 AM on April 3, 2020 [11 favorites]


I'm a painter, we have paints with dumb descriptives everyday.

I painted some MDF flats with the color "Sun Dew" the other day.

It was the exact same color as the MDF, dull beige.
posted by Max Power at 8:36 AM on April 3, 2020 [2 favorites]


Note: favourite bottle green (#044A05) is not favourite. Bummer.
Are they coming up with the adjectives and then randomly distributing them, or is someone actually sitting down with a tub of color chips and saying, "This is screaming aqua... no... THIS is screaming deep aqua!"
posted by TrishaU at 10:51 AM on April 3, 2020


For those with a short attention span, here are the funniest. (45 seconds reading time)
posted by kozad at 1:50 PM on April 3, 2020


Being red green color blind I have my own names for colors. Red, Red, erm, kinda Red etc
posted by mdoar at 3:10 PM on April 3, 2020 [2 favorites]


I have tried my pottery instructor's patience by referring to a grey glaze combo he quite likes as "troll booger grey".

The problem is, it's exactly the shade of grey I imagined from Harry Potter ....
posted by Metasyntactic at 10:34 PM on April 3, 2020


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