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> I don’t believe I’ve ever heard those first three used as a colour. That's a bit unusual - plum and peach in particular are so common in use as colours that
by filleduchaos 6y ago
> I don’t believe I’ve ever heard those first three used as a colour.
That's a bit unusual - plum and peach in particular are so common in use as colours that they're part of the HTML colour names (as `peachpuff` and `plum`). Even if you haven't, surely you've heard of lime, olive, tomato, etc being used as colours?
- stephenr 6y agoLime green - sure. Olive green? Sure. Tomato? No I have never heard that used as a colour name unless you think “as red as a tomato” is a colour name.
- jachee 6y agoClearly you've never shopped for paint [0] or used X11 color names[1]. [0] https://www.sherwin-williams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family https://www.sherwin-williams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/h... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
- stephenr 6y agoI've shopped for paint numerous times in the last few years. I cannot even being to imagine wanting to paint my house any colour that is even vaguely similar to that of a fruit. And no, I don't know the X11 colour names, because - and brace yourself this may be shocking - not everyone uses X11.