Talk:Color Naming Rule/@comment-18396318-20150912203930/@comment-18396318-20150912223331

There's nothing that says a character's name has to be the same colour as the one associating with them. Cardin and Russel have no red, for example. Obviously the colour to Yang's character is yellow, but that necessarily mean it's the colour to her name.

"Arslan" doesn't live up to any of the rules. It is not a colour in another language, nor does it make you think of a colour. It's a word in another language that could make you think of a colour. The issue isn't that it fits more than one rule, it's that it doesn't fit any. "Altan," on the other hand, does mean a colour in another language. And the newscasters should be good enough indication that it doesn't have to be the first name.

My points with Ren and Nora are that things are unnecessarily overcomplicated. If we want to try to list every single way to come to a colour, especially if we're using rules loose enough to get a colour for the guy who doesn't actually have a colour, then it's going to get too cluttered, like it is with Arslan. Especially if the section is called "examples." On the other hand, if we're trying not to use the "evocative of a colour" rule because of its subjectivity, it would mean we're ignoring some really obvious answers, like Yang, Ren, and Nora. There's an inherent difficulty in what this page is trying to do, and as I said, I don't think I've got all the answers to handle it. The best I could think of is to only list the obvious names, and only use the single most obvious answer.