Talk:Color Naming Rule/@comment-26882656-20170605213042/@comment-4010415-20170606000709

1. "I'm saying, there's no need to give names to every single tiny variation of a color. Much less give them more "artistic" names that don't even imply what color and variation it refers to."

Have you never gone paint shopping? I dunno how it is in other countries, but here in the US, you go look at tons of different samples with various shades of color, often with their own special artistic name. Sometimes, the names don't make any damn sense, and I like to read the weird names and imagine what kinds of conversations went on between the people who named those paint colors.

Let me look at some paint colors from the brand Behr.


 * Galactic Tint - a shade of gray paint
 * Distant Land - a shade of brown paint
 * Taffy Twist - a shade of pink paint
 * Minstrel Rose - a shade of pink paint
 * Heart Breaker - a shade of pink paint
 * Glitterati - yet another stupid pink paint
 * Kiss and Tell - good Lord, Behr, what is with the names for your pink paints?
 * No More Drama - pink paint, again
 * Flirt Alert - a shade of red paint
 * Upbeat - a shade of yellow paint

I could list stupid paint colors all day, even search up other brands. Point is, it could be so much worse, SYUTK. One reason for specifically-named color shades and tints is for being able to easily specify the exact shade or tint you want for something, such as paint.

2. "One reads names like "Plum", or "Perú", or "Moccasin" without being shown the color itself, will most likely have no idea what sort of color they are."

Have you never seen a plum before? It's a fruit, and when it gets ripe, its skin turns purple, so that's the color that people associate with it. For most people, if you say the color of something is "plum", they'll automatically know that you mean purple like a plum. It's like saying the color of something is "lemon" - you'll know that it's yellow like a lemon.