Re: REF: checklist colors, etc.

Colors used to fascinate me when I was a kid.  I suppose they still do,
just not excited by them any more (at least not just by themselves - a
beautiful landscape or sunset still gets the blood pumping).

I always thought of buff as sort of a pale peach with a hint of brown.
Sort of like a warm tan.  Hard to describe something that isn't quite
anything else.  Common color in cats too (usually called "yellow").  Common
color in western landscapes too, both the vegetation and the land.

Colors are so hard to pin down and describe verbally.  And there seem to be
almost as many concepts of what any given name represents as there are
people trying to describe them.  I tend to think of colors by their primary
constituents, as if I was mixing paints.  This would be orange-yellow, or
yellow mixed with red (more yellow than red), with just a touch of blue and
a good dose of white, all stirred up.  But that probably doesn't bring the
right color to mind - unless you've mixed paints.  Even then the
proportions make all the difference.

Dave

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