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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This shade of red ALSO derives from the appearance of blood...ox blood, to be precise.
11. Sinoper
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
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
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
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
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
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
This color, not surprising given its name, is based off of the sublime hues of the Australian outback.
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