How many colours do you know?

PostHow many colours do you know? by **Herdanos** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:14 pm

Simple: read the colour name, visualise the colour in your head, then open the corresponding spoiler box. You get a point for each colour you got right.

Alabaster

Beige

Bronze

Celadon

Cerulean

Cobalt

Crimson

Cyan

Fuchsia

Indigo

Lavender

Lilac

Magenta

Mauve

Teal

Terracotta

Turquoise

Vanilla

Vermillion

Viridian

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Qikz** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:16 pm

I knew all but one of those - mostly from playing RTS games and Pokemon games lmao

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That's... all of them. Though I'd question vanilla being a colour. (I was probably a bit out on vermillion.)

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Tsunade** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:17 pm

Alabaster got me. I've never used it in any of my paintings or past projects before!

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Moggy** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:18 pm

I memorised all 16,777,216 colours when the PS1 came out.

Got celadon and cerulean mixed up. :fp:

Other than that, a clean sweep.

Like heck does indigo look like that. :capnscotty:

I got all of the broad strokes (due to Pokémon again), but I'd question some of these particular interpretations.

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Met** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:10 pm

I got all the real colours because I'm very smart and you clearly lied about Alabaster not being close to black.

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Zilnad** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:13 pm

Only 13. Shocking.

2.

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Alabaster, Vanilla and Celadon were the only ones I really couldn't visualize, the rest were close enough I guess.

Edit: Magenta and Fuscia are the same colour, the hex value (FF00FF) is identical.

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Knoyleo** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:23 pm

Dan, why do you hate chartreuse?

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Imrahil** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:38 pm

I got around 15. But a lot of them are common names of hobby paint colours, so I feel like that's sort of cheating a bit. I wouldn't have known them otherwise!

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I stopped at indigo because that isn’t indigo.

The problem with doing this in an RGB colour space is that it’s not how things are coloured in the real world. Your screen (and these coloured squares) are formed by adding various intensities of red, green and blue and *emitting* them but real colour is the *absorption* of every *other* colour from whatever light it’s reflecting at you

jiggles wrote:I stopped at indigo because that isn’t indigo.

Indigo is a hotel. Ffs Dan :lol:

The magenta and fuchsia colours are the same there. If we take fuchsia from the flower, it's got more red in it. Magenta is correct.

Ones missing include ochre, sienna, maroon, and, well, brown.

I'll just be a dick and throw anthracite in there.

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **BID0** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:57 pm

Did someone watch that bridge quiz show the other day?

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **rinks** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:20 pm

Anyone who’s got a carved alabaster holiday souvenir knows that the colour there is right, more or less.

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **rinks** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:21 pm

Met wrote:I got all the real colours because I'm very smart and you clearly lied about Alabaster not being close to black.

You thinking of obsidian?

PostRe: How many colours do you know? by **Moggy** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:23 pm

rinks wrote:
Met wrote:I got all the real colours because I'm very smart and you clearly lied about Alabaster not being close to black.

You thinking of obsidian?

What's Dungeon Siege III got to do with this?

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