[Eric_Henao]

I thought that all you color enthusiast designers could use some of this next time you are trying to explain the sublities of a color to the client!
Enjoy!

Eric Henao
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The following were among the 200 color names sent to Johns Hopkins University scientists Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry. After announcing in January that the universe is pale turquoise and then discovering in March that it is actually a shade of beige, the scientists solicited suggestions for the color's name.

ambiance

antique white

baldglaze

banana-creme smoothie

big bang beige

big bang blush

big bang bone

big bang buff

bisque

buphy

cappuccino cosmico

celestial wash

cookie dough

cosmage

cosmic cornsilk

cosmic khaki

cosmic tapioca

cosmite

cosmological cream

cream of wheat

creamsch

creme brulee

early eons ecru

ethereal fog

etherite

far-off-white

GRS karivma

galactic gold

gamma blond

gellow

gispert

hash

infinite sand

landlord white

milky white

milquetoast

navajo white

not-so-far-off-white

nude

off-turquoise

oyster

pale shade of white

potato flesh

primordial clam chowder

quantum foam

quantum snow

saltine

sands-of-time tan

skyvory

soleige

spabeige

speige

teabiscuit

tintabulation

toasted creamsicle

univeige

universal albumen

warm cotton

warm frost

whisper

wheige

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[buchrob]

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Others might have snapped up this highly-important proprietary information and then jumped ship to a paint company or a purveyor of cosmetics and hair colouring.

I have done production work for both types of enterprises, and I can tell you that these are the type of business that drive the cutting edge of colour technology.

Some people may take my comments to be tongue-in-cheek. But you can be absolutely sure that ColorSync is of no comfort when you have to produce a brochure highlighting the 20-or-so NEW shades of red that l'Oreal is just now producing or the 12 exciting new shades of semi-transparent stain that will look just perfect on 4 different types of wood.

I can do both of these jobs ---- just don't ask me to memorize the names of all these new colours and keep a straight face.