Page:A color notation (Munsell).djvu/88

 C and D, where one kind of blue is “dying” when the next is “being born,” which not inaptly describes the color memory of many a person. Finally, it assures us that Queen blue is “fine” and King blue is “ deep.”

This year the fashionable shades are “burnt onion” and “fresh spinach.” ‘The florists talk of a “pink violet” and a “green pink.” A maker of inks describes the red as a “true crimson scarlet,” which is a contradiction in terms. These and a host of other names borrowed from the most heterogeneous sources, become outlawed as soon as the simple color terms and measures of this system are adopted.

Color anarchy is replaced by systematic color description.