COLOUR AND IMAGINATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 345, 16 August 1930, Page 2

COLOUR AND IMAGINATION

Those clover people who give names to new colours certainly use 1 their imagination to good advantage, and it is interesting to look through a list of forty-two “exquisite colours” given recently in a Manchester firm’s advertisement. Of the six different kinds of blue two have place names—NOphs and Antibes—and probably relate to the colours of sea or sky prevailing there, but it is hard to understand why one shade is christened Atlantic anl another Mirage. .Among the rids are such names as Lucifer, Colorado and Pimpernel, the last being the colour of the little way side English flower; Colorado red’s origin is more obscure. The beige called Cloister sounds cool, subdued, and restful. Surely it is not quite correct to call one shade of green Oakapple. That apple-like gall on the leaves of oaks is not really an oak apple until it is a wizened-looking little brown thing. The browns are easier to understand with their Russet, Beech Nut, Oedar, and Chocolate. Then there are such colours as Sunrise and Gobelin grey. The first must be of a great many hues to be nearly accurate, and tho latter cannot possibly have any foundation outside the imagination.