[Tig] Names for colours

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Richard Kirk wrote:

> I found a reference to Kelly and Judd's Dictionary of Color Names  
> (1955).
> I think the Kelly is the same one that came up with the color name  
> chart
> in 1935 (this from memory, so the date may be wrong). Anyhow, I did a
> quick web search and found this...
>
> http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/Dictionaries

Hi Richard, will take a look and include them in a new TIG wiki  
section on color names.

here are a few I ran across that I found interesting:

Ivory Tusk           # vas is das- Navajo White in the Western US
Wedding Veil     # an ephemeral gauze-like foreground, and backlit  
creamy
                                 -bronze background for flesh
Barely Blushing  # Susan Dey, in _Airplane_, when she's asked if she  
wants
                                   a coffee
Dusty Trail            #  Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, when he  
does
                                   _the jump_

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