Monday, February 17, 2020

GRANULATING OR GENUINE COLORS


















Do you ever wonder how the colors get named?  Who names them?  Is there a special department just for coming up with interesting names for new colors?

Why Lunar Red Rock and not just Red Rock?
Why Lunar Earth and not just Earth Brown?

And why Goethite?? Hmmmm...


Wouldn’t it be a great job to be the one (or one in a group) to come up with new color names for Daniel Smith or Winsor Newton or Holbein or...?

2 comments:

laura said...

I do often think about that!
And used to think especially about the names of hair dyes and nail polishes (back when I was a consumer of such things!). I'd often choose a hair color just because I liked the name!

RH Carpenter said...

Thanks, Laura. The name of something does make a different sometimes :)