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Oct. 9th, 2024 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaI had a dream the other day that I was watching Youtube videos about how there was a redesigned Hetalia character for Tibet, who was now a woman in traditional dress, but her hat had subtle cat ears on it. I can't guess where most of that came from except that I had watched a video of Katya's new FS program that day, and she wears a small pair of cat ears with her costume because she's skating to Cats. (I vote she should keep the cat ears, though my impression is that that is the less popular opinion.)
I finished The Secret Lives of Color, and it was exactly what I was looking for: lots of interesting trivia and also some ideas for worldbuilding in easily digestible chunks for reading on the bus. Just wish there was more about pigments outside of Europe - the author did pull in some things from east/south Asian art and occasionally the pre-colonial Americas, but Africa didn't much exist outside Egypt. I'm also not a fan of this style of footnotes, where they are occasionally additional notes on the text but are mostly sources; I mostly end up ignoring them and then browsing through them at the end, because the load time in my library's app is long enough that I don't want to bother flipping back and forth while I'm reading it.
Some color names from the appendix that I liked the sound of but didn't know about before:
There were also a couple of interesting ones like 'nymphea' or 'quimper' that I looked up but don't seem to actually be in common use as color names.
I finished The Secret Lives of Color, and it was exactly what I was looking for: lots of interesting trivia and also some ideas for worldbuilding in easily digestible chunks for reading on the bus. Just wish there was more about pigments outside of Europe - the author did pull in some things from east/south Asian art and occasionally the pre-colonial Americas, but Africa didn't much exist outside Egypt. I'm also not a fan of this style of footnotes, where they are occasionally additional notes on the text but are mostly sources; I mostly end up ignoring them and then browsing through them at the end, because the load time in my library's app is long enough that I don't want to bother flipping back and forth while I'm reading it.
Some color names from the appendix that I liked the sound of but didn't know about before:
- Bister, a brown
- Fulvous, a tawny to orange color in the name of a lot of birds; a lot of definitions say 'dull', but the birds are mostly pretty colorful
- Glaucous, a pretty blue-gray like grapes with the coating on them
- Incarnadine, a pinkish bright red
There were also a couple of interesting ones like 'nymphea' or 'quimper' that I looked up but don't seem to actually be in common use as color names.
