If you ever felt like you lacked the words to describe a color, worry no more. We’ve collected a list of some obscure (yet very real) color names for use in all of your descriptive pursuits.
- Albicant: whitish; turning white
- Amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red color
- Cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet color
- Eburnean: ivory
- Erythraean: reddish
- Flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
- Greige: grey-beige
- Hoary: pale silver-grey
- Isabelline: greyish yellow
- Kermes: brilliant red; a red dye derived from insects
- Lovat: grey-green; blue-green
- Madder: red dye made from brazil wood; reddish or red-orange
- Mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue
- Sarcoline: flesh-colored
- Smaragdine: emerald green
- Tilleul: pale yellowish-green
- Titian: red-gold, reddish brown
- Virid: green
- Viridian: chrome green
- Xanthic: yellow
- Zinnober: chrome green