Talk:Color Naming Rule/@comment-26882656-20170605213042/@comment-25936766-20170605231251

"More specific terms for different shades and tints"?

Alright, then tell me how "Alice Blue" achieves that purpose? How does the Alice in Alice Blue even hint that it refers to Ice Blue or even a Pale-ish Blue?

Phantom, you are grossly missing my point by oversimplifying it. I'm not saying X color and all it's variations should have 1 name only.

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.

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.

One reads names like Dodger Blue, Navajo White, Powder Blue, Saddle Brown, and will most likely have no idea of how that specific variation looks like, or how different they are from other variations of the same color.

The latter is especially bad when the variation already has a name or 2 that are much more practical. In this case, Ice Blue/White-Blue vs Alice Blue.