If you could name a colour, what would you call it?

9 years ago

Don't you love how creative designers can get when they name a new colour/shade? Elephant's breath, Tangerine Tango, Death by Chocolate... the list is endless.

If you had the chance, which colour would you go for, and what would you call it?

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Faith Foster

9 years ago

I would call this colour "Smoke On The Water" (:

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sloeginfizzz
9 years ago
Red - Spicy Salsa
Orange - Autumn Fire/Apricot Sorbet
Yellow - Honey Blonde
Green - Morning Dew
Blue - Frozen
Purple - Pantomime
Pink - French Fancy/Bacon
Black - Night Vision
Brown - Glastonbury
White - Apple Blossom/Baby Powder
Grey - Gandalf

I like this game
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OnePlan
9 years ago
Be great to buy a colour called 'Ticketyboo' !!
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Emmeline Westin
Original Author
9 years ago
I'd be intrigued to see that bacon colour @lydichad!
Tom Flanagan
9 years ago
Wood Sage (after my new favourite cologne) ;)
bombel1972
9 years ago
haha gandalf.
there could be so many fun names. bubble gum(pink) parakeet (yellow) snow white (white)
Jo DP
9 years ago
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Dirty Pink. ( to get rid of any sugary connotation.)

I am hoping there is a colour out there,already, called Parisian Pink. I am searching for this elusive colour.
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Stella Michael
9 years ago
lydichad - my bathroom is painted in a colour called Salsa Red by Dulux - I love it! It's a 'true' red. The builders refurbishing the bathroom admitted they originally laughed when they heard what I wanted (+huge black tiles in smallish bathroom) but later were amazed how it came together and asked if they could take photos for their website ... so it definitely is spicy!
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Stella Michael
9 years ago
I would love luscious pink - a deep but clear pink (with no black in it) I have been looking for this colour for ages after using a pink called 'Russian Red' which is a dark pink (with too much black). I also love the idea of 'egg yolk yellow', and simply 'orange orange' ... did you know the fruit was named after the colour? rather than the other way round.
Roy Knowles
9 years ago
I tried the salsa red on what will be our feature wall, it didn't work well sadly. Currently it resembles a murder scene, right above of our fireplace lol.
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Stella Michael
9 years ago
Roy I think it also depends on how much you love a colour ... I love bright deep colours, in my house, in wardrobe etc. I love drama and contrast and the bathroom is somewhere that I don't spend hours so it can be bold. Not sure I would put it in my living room although I did lock myself in my bedroom when I was a teenager and painted my bedroom the equivalent of Salsa Red because my dad had said I couldn't. I loved it and lived with it happily for years. Here's the bathroom, I looove it so much and even after several years I just go in to admire it. It's not just the red, the tiles and very unusual bath, the fittings, the whole thing ... it feels like a piece of art (I know, I know how can someone get so excited about a bathroom but I take my thrills where I can get them ;-) ...
Craig Anderson
9 years ago
An antique sort of gold called Marauder's Map. A sage mossy green called Robin Hood
Will Roberts
9 years ago
Colors that bring back holiday memories might work.

Relating to the colour of the soil, Amboseli red.

Relating to the colour of their clothes,
Masai red.

Relating to the colour of the tree,
Baobab silver.

Relating to a view from the air,
St. Lucian green or Coral green.

Saharan yellow

Lava flow brown or black.
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User
9 years ago
Not too sure what to call it, maybe something that combines a dark blue with charcoal, Moonlight Charcoal perhaps :P its a beautiful colour and room though :)
desertheatre
9 years ago
My favourite colour is blue so it would have to be BLUE BLUE.
Sam Hill
9 years ago
My Dad is a decorator - there's a paint called Elephant breath.
John Gomes
9 years ago
Nimble
Luisa Rollenhagen
9 years ago
Ketchup deluxe
hollybar
9 years ago
Dreich--a shade close to BM Baltic Gray but more miserable and a wee bit darker
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Julie Sheldon
9 years ago
Ginger Puff a warm colour for winter.
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Julie Sheldon
9 years ago
Winter Willow
caltech1948
9 years ago
I used Farrow and Ball's Elephants Breath (muddy Grey) and Skimming Stone on my kitchen and it looked great!
chalkandbell
9 years ago
Some great ideas.
This reminds me of a Victoria Wood sketch where the old couple won a competition to think up new names for colours.
I remember liver and bandage...which was grey!
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P & P Maintenance Services
8 years ago
I have already done this. A customer wanted the exact same colour on her walls as the kitchen cabinets that we had installed. We had the Decorators Merchants do a colourmatch on it andit turned out to be a unique coliur so it became known as 'P & P Maintenance Cream'
Natalie Patton
8 years ago
I would go for a pinky Grey colour and call it Elise after my daughter whose bedroom is done in pink and Grey and I stil cant find the right colour mix
User
8 years ago
Hubby says he would name his colour "Gary".
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
[chookchook2[(https://www.houzz.co.uk/user/chookchook2) I love the idea of calling a colour Gary but what kind of colour would it be!? Not Gary Grey surely, doesn't sound fun enough.
User
8 years ago
Flannelette shirt blue.
Christo Mitov
8 years ago
@[chookchook2[(https://www.houzz.co.uk/user/chookchook2): one of my favourite colours! :)
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
[chookchook2[(https://www.houzz.co.uk/user/chookchook2) that is such an exclusively Aussie colour, love it!! (No one else calls them flannelette shirts ;-) Living in London for many years it's funny the small things you miss.
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8 years ago
Stella, you can come back home, Tony Abbott has granted you a pardon.
sootsprite
8 years ago
If I ever stumble across that elusive blue I am looking for, I will call it "Serendipity."
Question for all of you - what color do you think "Careless Whisper" would be?
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
[sootsprite[(https://www.houzz.co.uk/user/sootsprite) Careless Whisper would be a light slightly hazy blue (meaning a light, bright blue but with a touch of grey in the mix)
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8 years ago
A careless whisper of scandal to someone's spouse could result in alot of gunmetal grey and blood red!
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VORBILD Architecture
8 years ago
I wish I named "Elephants breath" ;-)
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Handmade in Brighton
8 years ago
Someone's already done it for me, and it is in fact one of my favourite colours - 'Payne's Grey',

Jude Payne
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8 years ago
Tutu Pink - soft smokey pale pink
Relaxed Red - chalky soft red
Oyster Grit Grey - soft smokey grey
Damson Dare - Deep Cerise
Yummy Yellow - egg yolk
astartestar
8 years ago
White - Tarlatan

Scarlet - Wound

Green - Vent Vert

Light green - Apres l'Ondee

Dark blue - Byron

blue-grey - L'Heure Bleu

Purple - Martinique

Dark grey - Victoria

Light grey - Jicky

Off-white - Plumes
astartestar
8 years ago
Gold - Smaug

Silver - Cymbeline

Dark grey - Pinter

Mauve - Sewell

Brown - Fitzrovia

Pink - Montparnasse
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AL PAINTING
8 years ago
what about something industrial for example red - beef :)
lindalovie55
8 years ago
raw sausage,pink...fishfinger...orange, scrambled egg..pale yellow
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
Luscious Lips - a rich deep pink/cerise
sunetra43
8 years ago
Abracadabra - mixed colours
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Blister pink. A glass shade of pink
trasimeno
8 years ago
This is certainly an idea for an ice breaker of party game!

Italian Sky...of course the colour would be a heart soaring shade of blue.
lindalovie55
8 years ago
oh i so need a holiday under that blue blue sky
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
trasimeno love it as an ice breaker game! Italian sky sounds gorgeous!

I suspect Rioja Red has already been done but still sounds delicious and would make a great colour.
Shree
8 years ago
red - divine
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Amber Jeavons Ltd
8 years ago
Hello Emmeline,

Heliotrope would be a nice one... For a royal inky blue/purple... : ))
lindalovie55
8 years ago
starless nightsky

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