A-Z of Colours 🌈

WhatThe

Sky-blue pink 😉

Ramonica

[deleted] you dont worth even that.

WhatThe

Turquoise

 (/ˈtɜːrk(w)ɔɪz/ TUR-k(w)oyz) is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name. The word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turquois, meaning 'Turkish', because the mineral was first brought to Europe through Turkey from mines in the historical Khorasan province of Iran (Persia) and Afghanistan today.

The first recorded use of turquoise as a colour name in English was in 1573.

(Wikipedia)

Cantilip

can't take this away from @WhatThe Drum roll…..

WhatThe

Ultramarine

Michelangelo couldn’t afford ultramarine. His painting The Entombment, the story goes, was left unfinished as the result of his failure to procure the prized pigment. Rafael reserved ultramarine for his final coat, preferring for his base layers a common azurite; Vermeer was less parsimonious in his application and proceeded to mire his family in debt.

Ultramarine: the quality of the shade is embodied in its name. This is the superlative blue, the end-all blue, the blue to which all other hues quietly aspire. The name means “beyond the sea”—a dreamy ode to its distant origins, as romantic as it is imprecise.

Derived from the lapis lazuli stone, the pigment was considered more precious than gold. For centuries, the lone source of ultramarine was an arid strip of mountains in northern Afghanistan. The process of extraction involved grinding the stone into a fine powder, infusing the deposits with melted wax, oils, and pine resin, and then kneading the product in a dilute lye solution. Because of its prohibitive costs, the colour was traditionally restricted to the raiment of Christ or the Virgin Mary. European painters depended on wealthy patrons to underwrite their purchase. Less scrupulous craftsmen were known to swap ultramarine for smalt or indigo and pocket the difference; if they were caught, the swindle left their reputation in ruin.

(The Paris Review)

Cantilip

violet

Whatz we doz when getz to zed Z-y-x or back to A-B-C

Albus_Scope

Wisteria! (color hex; #C9A0DC)

@Cantilip once we get to Z, it's back to A again and we can all try and think of different ones. 😁

Cantilip

xenon blue

Albus_Scope

Yabbadabbado - a teal colour. (hex 008B97)

WhatThe

The real teal deal?

Cantilip

"It's The Flintstones, meet the Flintstones…Have a yabbadabbadoo time!" Takes me back.

Zaffre (also spelt Zaffer), a prescientific, or alchemical substance, is a deep blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore, and is made of either an impure form of cobalt oxide[1] or impure cobalt arsenate. During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain glass blue.[2]

The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name in English was sometime in the 1550s (exact year uncertain).[3]

Zaffre - Wikipedia

Sandy_123

Apricot

Cantilip

Beige

WhatThe

Crimson

Albus_Scope

Daisy Chrome (hex- F6C214)

Cantilip

Ebony

WhatThe

Forest green 🌳

Cantilip

Green

Rosie_Scope

Hibiscus

Cantilip

iris