Color Standards and Color Nomenclature: With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colorsRidgway, Robert
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Color Standards and Color Nomenclature: With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors
Ridgway, Robert
Colors
White LIII 73 (10)
Windsor Blue XXXV 49′′ _i_
Winter Green XVIII 33′ _i_
Wistaria Blue XXIII 57′ _b_
Wistaria Violet XXIII 59′ _b_
*Wood Brown XL 17′′′ —
Xanthine Orange III 13 _i_
Yale Blue XX 47′ _b_
Yellow Ocher XV 17′ —
Yellow-Green VI 31 —
Yellowish Citrine XVI 23′ _i_
Yellowish Glaucous XLI 25′′′ _f_
Yellowish Oil Green V 25 _k_
Yellowish Olive XXX 23′′ _k_
Yew Green XXXI 27′′ _m_
Yvette Violet XXXVI 55′′ _k_
Zinc Green XIX 37′ _i_
Zinc Orange XV 13′ —
THE FOLLOWING COLORS REPRESENTED IN THE OLD "NOMENCLATURE OF COLORS"
(1886) CANNOT BE MATCHED BY COLORS IN THE PRESENT WORK. THEY ARE
INTERMEDIATES, EITHER AS TO HUE OR TONE (SOMETIMES BOTH), AND WOULD
FALL IN UNCOLORED SPACES, AS INDICATED BY THE NUMERALS AND LETTERS
APPENDED TO EACH:—
_Azure Blue_ = 48 _a_ (see Plates VIII and IX).
_Broccoli Brown:_ Between 17′′′ _k_ and 17′′′′ _i_ (see Plates XL and
XLVI).
_Buff_ = 18′′ _d_ (see Plates III and IV).
_Burnt Carmine_ = 71 _i_ (Plate XII).
_Canary Yellow:_ Between 23 _b_ and 21′ _b_ (see Plates IV and XVI).
_Chinese Orange_ = 12 _h_ (see Plates II and III).
_Chrome Yellow_ = 20 _a_ (Plate IV).
_Cobalt Blue_ = 48 slightly dull (see Plates VIII and IX).
_Crimson_ = 1 _j_ (Plate I).
_French Blue_ = 52 _h_ (Plate IX).
_Gallstone Yellow_ = 19′ _h_ (Plate XVI).
_Gamboge Yellow_ = 20, slightly dull, or 21, slightly dull (Plate IV).
_Geranium Red_ = 3 _a_ (Plate I).
_Heliotrope Purple:_ Between 65′′′ _b_ and 65′′′′ _b_ (see Plates XLIV
and L).
_Indian Yellow_ = 18 _h_ or 18 slightly dull (Plate III). This color
and Saffron Yellow are practically identical in many copies of the
old "Nomenclature."
_Lake Red_ = 72 _h_ (Plate XII).
_Maroon Purple_ = 72′ _i_ (Plate XXVI).
_Ochraceous_ = 16′ _h_ (Plate XV).
_Ochraceous-Rufous_ = 12′ _h_ (see Plates XIV and XV).
_Ochre Yellow_ = 18′ (see Plates XV and XVI).
_Orange-Ochraceous_ = 16 _h_ (Plate III).
_Orange Vermilion_ = 4, dull (Plate I).
_Orpiment Orange_ = 11 _h_ (Plate II).
_Peach-blossom Pink_ = 1 _e_ (Plate I).
_Poppy Red:_ between 3 and 5 _h_ (Plate I).
_Saffron Yellow_ = 18 (see Plates III and IV).
_Saturn Red_ = 11 _a_ (Plate II).
_Scarlet Vermilion_ = 4, dull (Plate I).
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