Color Thesaurus

Shades of meaning.

Today, I just want to share Ingrid Sundberg’s fascinating color thesaurus. Follow the link to her original post or just drink in her swatches below. Each word is surrounded by the color it conveys:

I notice charcoal is in there twice, though it may be instructive to compare it with both the grays and the blacks. If there are no other duplications—and I’m not seeing any just now—then that’s 239 color words.

Is that all the available options? Not hardly! There are 1,160 color names on this page alone. But until I can arrange a complete run-through of every color name I can find, it’ll have to do!

P.S.: If you feel like squinting, here’s a 550-color version that’s clearly based on the above, by Jacob Oleson. Link here.

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