Re: REF: Color 'Dictionaries'
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] REF: Color 'Dictionaries'
- From: J* J* K*
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:47:13 -0700
- References: <5f.40f5acf.262f051a@aol.com>
Anner,
Could you please provide some details on how one can acquire these "color fans"?
Thank you,
Jeffrey Kurtzeman
AIS Region 15, USDA Area 9,
Phoenix, AZ
ChateauWhitehall@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/19/00 12:09:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, amyr@jump.net
> writes:
>
> << Does anyone have a good reference for exotic colour names? Like cordovan
> (not in my dictionary, except for the reference to leather) -- an online
> search suggested it's a red with no orange/yellow in it whatsoever... or "sea
> lavender", or any number of exotic colour names I encounter in iris
> descriptions?>>
>
> There is really not such a comprehensive creature as I think you are
> visualizing it. Most of the exotic color names you see in the descriptions
> are names from one of several color charts that have found favor over the
> years. Most irises introduced since the 'fifties are keyed to the Royal
> Horticultural Society color fans and the exotic sounding names are names of
> specific color samples on those color fans. Some registeration descriptions
> give both the color name and the RHS number of that color. So the
> 'dictionary' is the color fans and the definition is a color sample.
>
> Anner, in Virginia
> ChateauWhitehall@aol.com
>
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