Broaden Your Colour Vocabulary

There is a plethora of colours in this world that is more complex and varied than a simple colour spectrum that rainbow represents. So no wonder why most of us are having a hard time describing a particular shade of a colour.

Well maybe for other people, a red is a red regardless of its hue and intensity. But for artists, designers, writers, make-up artists and even for somebody who is planning to have their room painted with their specific favorite colour, it is very significant to describe the exact shade of a colour to get it right.

Well Ingrid Sundberg, a writer and an illustrator, found a way to somehow ease the difficulty of describing colours using words. She created a 12-colour chart collection that contains different shades of colours with specific names which she called “The Colour Thesaurus”. This colour reference helps her to add specificity to her writing and paint a more evocative image on her reader’s mind, especially when describing a specific colour.

Although intended for writing, other professions like designers, paintings, make-up artists, etc., will surely find this reference quite helpful in a way.

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