User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/The Naming Rule of Remnant/@comment-9058532-20131201004025/@comment-4010415-20150217032950

@SaiPrime: The image Monty made of the color naming rules said that EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER IN RWBY (except Ozpin) FOLLOWS THE COLOR NAMING RULE.

Glynda Goodwitch - Glenda can mean fair-skinned, which brings to mind the color of fair skin

James Ironwood - Ironwood. Iron is a silver color, wood is a brown color. People keep missing that for some reason. Remember that the name can remind people of a color.

And color names became a custom almost 80 years ago. I'm pretty sure none of the characters we've met so far (except Ozpin) was born before that.