Re: iris info
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- Subject: Re: iris info
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:14:00 -0700 (MST)
Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
>
> 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! (-:
>
>
Thanks, Jeff -- I'll check the Archives. I think that was about the time
that I was essentially without my computer for 2 1/2 months until they
determined that the problem was a faulty modem. And no, bearing in mind
the adage "When in Rome . . ." usw, I stay
out of such places. And besides, the butler did it. Happy New Year!
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA
jgcrump@erols.com
