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2021-06-05, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Spoiler: colour list[*] Eggplant? Purple, Quite Dark, leans slightly cool IMO and usually with high saturation. [*] Wenge? Near Black Brown. Not sure full source but highly stained but not fully ebonized wood get this name. [*] Royal Blue? Very old - Indigo. Somewhat later was a lighter high intensity shade between indigo and cerulean esp in France[*] Coquelicot? ... huh got me [*] Taupe? Beige-grey [*] Malachite? Green. Actual shade is silly as it is taken from a stone most noteworthy for having multi-tonal bands of green colour. [*] Primrose? (No, it's not pink) a soft light blue. I generally think of it somewhat between "powder blue" and sky.[*] Cobalt? Strong blue that matches the Cobalt oxide tone. Most commonly found in various glazes and glasses. So the blue and white ceramics found all all over the world. This somewhat varies over the world due to impurities...somewhat similar to indigo/wode
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2021-06-05, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2021-06-05, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-06, 07:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Are we doing this here?
Spoiler: Wild guesses
- Eggplant? -- Most eggplants I have seen are a dark purple, almost black, but some are white, and some a lighter shade of purple. I would presume as a color name this is slightly lighter than the almost-black eggplants.
- Wenge? -- I'd never heard of this. As a wild guess I'd say a pale blue, as in Wedgewood pottery.
- Royal Blue? (I anticipate discussion about the type of blue this is) A fairly saturated, very slightly dark blue.
- Coquelicot? I'd never heard of this. I'd guess a pale octarine.
- Taupe? A very pale brown, like a beige.
- Malachite? It's a greenish mineral, so I'd say a slightly dark green. Other copper minerals are blue.
- Primrose? (No, it's not pink) Most flowers come in alternative colors, so I won't speculate what was chosen here.
- Cobalt? I've heard of cobalt blue, but it could be like cadmium, where there are different cobalt salts of different colors.
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2021-06-07, 05:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Geez. Okay, These are hard. English colour names are hard, Latin ones are much easier, since they have etymology I can guess.
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Eggplant: sounds like a trick Question. Modern eggplants are Purple-black, while heirloom lines are, well, egg-coloured. I'm going with very dark purple.
Wenge: oh, get off. That's impossible. No guess. Moving on.
Royal Blue: Well, it's blue? A relatively deep blue. Might be interesting to see if it's different from Königsblau or bleu royal, though. Probably not that much.
Coqueliquot: French name for the Poppy? So I'd guess a vibrant red.
Taupe: eh? Sounds like a boring colour. Let's say… a type of grey or grey-brown.
Malachite: as the Mineral. Copper Carbonate... hydroxide IIRC? So something like Cu(CO2)(OH)x. Very strong green.
Primrose: geez, who knows. They have all manner of colours. There's a million variations. I would have guessed either pale yellow or pink, but from how you asked, I'm guessing not that. Uh... green? Violet?
Cobalt: elemental Cobalt is just metallic, but various salts are used as dyes and they are all blue.
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2021-06-07, 05:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Interesting. I just googled Primrose and found this…
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2021-06-07, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
That is a fun game.
SpoilerEggplant - going from the actual plant, a dark purple?
Wenge - no idea, never heard of it
Royal blue - a dark, saturated blue
Coquelicot - that's the sound a rooster makes
Taupe - some bluish grey, a hint of violet?
Malachite - going from the mineral, some kind of green. On the bluish side, I would say.
Primrose - if pink is out, then I have no clue
Cobalt - a bright blue, as in 'cobalt-blue sky'
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2021-07-05, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Spoiler: My guesses
- Eggplant? Purple
- Wenge? That's a made up word and not a color
- Royal Blue? Purple
- Coquelicot? Also a made up word
- Taupe? Puke green
- Malachite? Silver
- Primrose? Yellow
- Cobalt? Blue. This is the only one aside from eggplant that I feel remotely confident about.
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2021-07-05, 11:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2021-07-14, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Spoiler: PesterlogRed? I'm colour-blind but I think I know this one
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2021-07-24, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
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2021-07-25, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
SpoilerThis is what I thought for a long time, Vermillion Gym was Lt. Surge, so Vermillion must be yellow. I had to learn that Vermillion was red later in life.
On the other hand, Cerulean was one of my favorite crayons and I used it all the time - it was my favorite blue.
BUT I didn't play Pokemon until Gold and Silver. I watched the anime before that, so I had no clue all the towns were color names. I knew Cerulean was, but thought nothing of it.
I've never met anybody else who knows The Red Green Show, so this is very exciting for me.
I had an interesting experience once where I was trying to find a quote from Cyberchase. I remembered THE Hacker wanting a fog or something he was spreading to be puce, his favorite color, but his minions misheard him and used chartreuse. "Chartreuse? I wanted Puce!"
Now I might have misremembered all of that, but I came across a group of people who were arguing which was chartreuse and which was puce. Interesting times.Last edited by Penguinator; 2021-07-25 at 05:15 PM.
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2021-07-28, 09:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
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2021-07-28, 10:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Spoiler: Vermillion pillarsThe Curse of the House of Rookwood: Supernatural horror and family drama.
Ash Island: Personal survival horror in the vein of Silent Hill.
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2021-07-29, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
SpoilerThat's actually a very easy question because of my native language, but the reasoning for it being easy actually brought me to think quite a lot about latin languages. You see, "red" is "vermelho" in Portuguese, which makes the question really easy for us. Usually, Spanish, French and Italian would have similar words, but nope, they've got "rojo", "rouge" and "rosso". That brings another layer of linguistic fun as you learn that the Portuguese word "roxo", which is kinda similar to those three words, means "purple", and "rosa", similar to the Italian "rosso", is "pink". And purple, again, has completely different names for all 4 languages ("roxo" in Portuguese, "púrpura" in Spanish, "mauve" in French and "viola" in Italian). So yeah, romance languages are similar, but apparently not so much. Then again, "púrpura", "pourpre" and "porpora" are also names for purple in Portuguese, French and Italian respectively. So yeah, there's that.
By the way, the image that comes to my mind reading "vermillion" is actually orange, for Pokémon reasons. So in the end that wasn't a very easy question. At all.Last edited by Spider_Jerusalem; 2021-07-29 at 11:14 AM.
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2021-08-24, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
Spoiler: Here is my guessI didn't check the internet, but I guess it's some type of purple.
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2021-08-31, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
SpoilerI think it might be some shade of red?
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2021-09-15, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
SpoilerHave known it's red for like... 20+ years. Once you've done color-theory and such in art school, as well as more advanced color-names, you learn to recognize specific shades of a color. Artists tend to be ones who are very picky and peculiar about correct color-naming (why else do you think off-white and beige have so many colors in-between with many different names?).
Also in the Chinese constellations, you have the four symbols that are Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermillion Bird, which represents the element of fire and is depicted as a red pheasant-like bird. So another point for people into mythology stuff.
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2021-10-04, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart
SpoilerOrange is my guess.Last edited by Lhurgyof; 2021-10-04 at 12:26 PM.