Re: iris info
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- Subject: Re: iris info
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 09:10:08 -0700 (MST)
Griff Crump writes:
> Mark -- Your reply reminds me of a subject I've been intending to bring
> up for some time, namely, the difficulty of describing colors. One may
> be able to match the color in the R.H.S. Colour Chart, but "80 A" (the
> deepest hue of one of three sets of purple-violet shades) doesn't
> connote much. One still is left to describe that hue in words that,
> hopefully, call up a common image to the greatest number of hearers. The
> R.H.S. Colour Chart introduction alludes to this problem when it states
> that "the group names are not intended as colour names. Although colour
> names were used in the 1941 Horticultural Colour Chart, the multiplicity
> of them defeats their object." It then gives a few examples of names
> that it considers "meaningless to the great majority of people." Well,
> perhaps so, but I'd like to see what was tried. Does anyone have the
> 1941 chart, and what is your opinion of it? Does it depict as many
> colors (808) as the current chart? The current R.H.S. Colour Chart
> establishes an international standard for identifying colors, but
> doesn't seem to help in describing them.
Hi Griff!
Sharon McAllister provided a concordance of RHS Colour numbers and
descriptive color terms in a series of messages she posted to the list on
31 Jan 97 in the form of
178A Attic Rose
178B Brick Dust
179C Indian Pink
179D Reach Tint
usw
These are, of course, accessible in the Archives.
Trusting that you did not fall on your sword like a vanquished Roman
general! (-:
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
