17 Of The Most Beautiful Colors You Never Knew Existed. #9 Is Making Me Go Bananas
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Colors are beautiful. They breathe beauty into the life that surrounds us. By learning a little bit more about some colors you may never have notice, you'll gain a new appreciation for the world around you.
1. Flame of Burnt Brandy
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This outrageous sounding color was more than anything the result of a sort of boom of color names that occurred during the 19th century.
2. Falu
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Falun, a small city in Sweden, is populated almost exclusively with houses that have the same sort of classic deep red color. Hence: Falu.
3. Drunk tank pink
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This particular shade of pink has been used to calm people after it was tested and proven in psych studies to achieve some degree of tranquility.
4. Incarnadine
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Tracing the path back from this name is a little tricky. It comes from the word "incarnate" which means to have a bodily form. This would usually imply flesh-colored, but old Billy Shakes decided to use it to suggest blood colored in Macbeth, and here we
5. Verditer
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The name of this color comes from the French saying for "Green of the Earth," and it is also used to describe a light green, almost turquoise bird.
6. Gingerline
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This color, described as being comparable to the color of a ripe kumquat, derives its name from the Italian word for yellow, "giallo."
7. Watchet
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This color is named after Watchet, England, a town where, according to folklore, the surrounding cliffs are all a lovely pale blue due to the amount of Alabastor.
8. Drake's Neck
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This is based off of a type of male mallard duck that has a striking blue-green neck...so striking it became its own color! I guess you could say this duck started from the bottom, but now he's here.
9. Banan
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This color is based off of the shade of a—you guessed it—banana. It has been suggested that it also takes inspiration from a Gwen Stefani song.
10. Sang de Boeuf
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This shade of red ALSO derives from the appearance of blood...ox blood, to be precise.
11. Sinoper
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This rust-colored beauty is based off of the tone of Sinop, Turkey, which produced the rust-colored mineral hematite in the Renaissance age.
12. Pervenche
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Pervenche is the French word for periwinkle, and this is ultimately just another shade of that more well-known color. It's just a little French-er.
13. Puke
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Puke, before it became synonymous with Frat party after math, was a type of high-end fabric in England in the 16th century.
14. Lusty Gallant
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In the late 1500s cloth makers made up all kinds of outrageous names for shades of colors in order to sell more fabric. This is a prime example of that.
15. Zaffre
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Zaffre is a pigment that was once found deep inside of the cobalt of furnaces, and it is a close cousin of sapphire.
16. Bastard-Amber
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This shade of light is popular amongst people of the theater tech world. It can create a sort of mood lighting, appropriate for a romantic scene, possibly occurring at sunset. Doesn't explain the super rude name though...
17. Australien
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This color, not surprising given its name, is based off of the sublime hues of the Australian outback.
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