A question for the guys out there, do you have the same problem I do with colors?

[Solon]

I can identify easily, red, pink, green, yellow, orange, blue, purple, black, white, gray, and brown. Those are the labels I use for pretty much every color I see. The only others that may count and I consider exotic are silver, gold, and copper. Yeah, I pretty much learned my colors from a basic Crayola box.

But send me to a hardware store to pick out colors for paint, and I'm fucking lost, what the fuck is mauve? Hell, the only color I'd recognize is aquamarine, everything else would be a variation of the above colors, I'd call something light green if its light green dammit, I don't need a new label or word to memorize! Or greenish-blue, or yellowish orange, or whatever.

Oh, and I have a question, if there are "off-whites" are there "off-blacks" as well, and why not just call them light or dark gray instead?

I'm asking the guys because it seems to be more typical for us to think of the basic colors, and not all the variations in between.

Just my brainfart for the day. :dunce:

[seemunkee]

1. Hardest projects in interior design class was matching colors

We had to take fabric and wall paper patterns and repaint the samples using only primary colors
I could match laminate colors and wood stains pretty well though.

[DarkTirade]

2. I'm fine with colors.

I just refuse to label things with ridiculous names. For instance, it's orangeish pink, not salmon. I'm not gonna name a color after something that'll smell bad in a couple of days.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I was a production paint mixer for the Huffy Corp. for 2 years.

If I got it wrong they never told me... :shrug:

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. "It's PINK" "No, IT'S DUSTY ROSE!"

This is a real argument Mrs. OmahaBlueDog and I have had.