Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-226878-20140922031153

Well, yeah, but any rock can have a color. The point is that the word quartz isn't used to describe a particular color whereas turquoise is and the reason behind that is that while the turquoise always has a particular color, the quartz does not. It's comparable to trying to assign a particular color to agate, alexandrite, opal, feldspar, sillimanite, etc. The fact is that the team name isn't Rose Quartz, it's just quartz, which again, basically means nothing.

But I've decided I understand Sam's point as to why QRTS makes sense. JNPR has the J and the N from Jaune. QRTS has the Q and R from Qrow.