As a kid, courtesy of my large box of Crayola crayons, colors were synonymous with words: apricot, almond, goldenrod… (of course wikipedia has a chart with historical information on every Crayola color ever!). As an adult and a letterpress printer the word-names aren’t useful anymore. I mix colors using a Pantone mixing guide, which has no names, only percentages of other colors with no names (well, really code numbers for names!). So when my friend Cathy sent me a link to a color thesaurus, I was immediately transported back to kindergarten, sitting at the kitchen table with paper and my box of Crayolas (and that smell of waxy crayons). Here’s the entry for “goldenrod”:
This is quite nifty! At Christmas eve Mass my daughter & I were discussing one color of our newly painted church! Ha ! I thought green – she blue. May use this to “prove”
what color was used. nancy
Thesaurus and dictionary are really useful tools, I sometimes use them in different cases.
By the way, I also use few online tools, for example english thesaurus not only for colors, but for any words.