What is the wierdest color you've ever heard of?
I love the color razzmatazz.
What’s the funniest color you’ve heard?
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I am old enough to remember the crayon named Indian Orange.
What exactly makes this Orange color more like indians?
filmfann It was called Indian Red and it was renamed Chestnut. I just read on Wikipedia that they renamed it because some children thought it represented the skin color of Native Americans. I don’t know why Crayola named it Indian Red. Could it have been a reference to the color of Native American pottery? Or is it because chestnuts were a popular food in Native American culture?
http://www.ehow.com/info_8298576_chestnuts-fruit.html
Or because Native Americans were once called Indians, and Redskins? Look at the ball teams that still use those names and logos.
“Puce” reminds me of another color with an equally odd french name: Taupe. Means mole -colored.
Since Puce is already taken, I’ll chime in with Chartreuse.(color)
I don’t know if it is weird, but to go along with Indian Red, in NY we use Puerto Rican Pink. Or, we used to. Basically fuscia. We also use Puerto Rican blond, you know that blond color that happens when your hair is very very dark, black basically, and you try to blond it; a very yellow blond. Mine are slang terms though, and probably perceived as not nice. Indian red was an official Crayola color, and I am sure it was developed without malice.
Skybluepink!
Granny used this colour to describe anything loud & garish…..bless.
@ucme My mom had her ceiling in her bedroom painted that color when she was young!
@JLeslie Sleep in sunglasses did she? :¬)
@ucme She said it was like looking up at the sky. She grew up in a family of artists, what can I say. I think skybluepink can be more blue than pink, and more matte than metallic, not sure exactly what her ceiling color looked like.
Laurentian.
Wait you mean that’s the brand name…? Why didn’t anyone tell me??
Weirdest color, sounding-wise, to me is mauve.
Chinese Red it was really Orange.
My neighbors insist their peach house isn’t peach. It’s “baby bottom spring.”
... It’s SKIN COLORED! I hate it. Haha.
“Onyx”
It’s just black. Duh! :P:!
@Earthgirl and @JLeslie It may have been named without malice, but I’m not sure that means it’s perfectly PC. These are the folks who sold a flesh coloured crayon after all.
@dappled_leaves I am not saying it is PC. Growing up we used terms like Indian giver and crossed our legs Indian Style. I always thought of Indians as very nice people who cared about the earth and nature and had their land unfairly taken by the Europeans. None of those terms made me think they took back gifts really, and I didn’t think all Indians sat on the floor with their legs crossed. Not that I am saying we should use the terms, I don’t think we should.
Hooloovoo, a hyperintelligent shade of the colour blue.
I was just going to say ‘razzamatazz!!!!’
dappled_leaves I agree. It wasn’t PC and that’s why they changed it most likely. Flesh color is a name still used on colored pencils which is a shade only accurate to describe Caucasian flesh, lol. Now the lingerie industry likes to use the color name Nude to describe many different shades of flesh. You probably noticed that ther’s no way in hell those shades are going to be able to perfectly match everybody’s skin!
Did anyone notice how the cosmetics industry is getting more and more creative in naming colors? I have a lipstick by Nars that has the color name Orgasm.
http://www.temptalia.com/the-spring-season-nars-orgasm-lip-gloss
Interesting, I didn’t realize that name was still in use!
@Earthgirl I just realized I use nude and flesh to mean caucasian colored flesh. I actually never use flesh, it is just that is what I would assume. I do use the word nude. Nude lipliner, nude pantyhose, interesting. But, when it is talking about buying something for myself, I mean nude for me. If a black person asked me for a nude something or ther, I would think nude for them. Chanel has a new lipliner they call beige, I just saw it a couple days ago when I was looking for a nude lipliner. I did work in the lingerie world for a while, and we had ivory, beige, and brown to match skin colors.
HungryGuy It is really spelled Fuchsia. This is the most misspelled color name! It is easy to remember the correct spelling though. You just need to remember that it’s named after Leonhart Fuchs-” German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhart_Fuchs
I love the color fuchsia!
(I also have whole books devoted to the history of the colors red and indigo. I should become a colorist)
Has anybody besides me heard of baby kaka brown?
@Earthgirl – Thanks! It’s been years, but if she ever falls back to earth, I’ll tell her she’s been spelling her name wrong :-p
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