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The Viridian Issue
So, I was filling out one of those survey things that cycle through e-mail, where someone answers 40 questions about stuff, sends it to you so you can learn random facts about the person, and then you type in your own answers and send it back. If I have the time, I do those things because I find them fairly interesting.
One such question asked about my favorite color. I answered honestly with viridian. I know that some people would roll their eyes and mutter, "why don't you just say red, blue, yellow, or purple?" Well, millions of people in the world say their favorite color is red (or rojo, rosso, rouge, or vermelho if you prefer other languages). However, how many people list viridian as their favorite?
At any rate, the person who I was trading information with wrote back, inquiring whether viridian was even a real color, and if it was, what was it? I wrote back a long and slightly indignant explanation that viridian is a silvery shade of green. I find it hard to point to an iconic enough example that everyone could understand it, but it's similar to sea green. The only difference is that sea green is more of a bluish green rather than a silvery green.
Or, at least, that was the impression I was under. Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I did some further research on the color viridian. What I found was rather surprising. According to Wikipedia, viridian is a blue-green pigment that falls between green and cyan on the color wheel. The name comes from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". (Well, go figure...) For anyone truly experienced in color identification, it is listed as 64 points red, 130 points green, and 109 points blue. Now, the results of this research initially kind of ticked me off. I saw viridian before, and it was a silvery green. I feel as though the color they are describing is more like a teal, aquamarine, or the dreadfully uncreative blue-green. However, I take comfort in the fact that since Wikipedia allows anyone to write up its pages, the source is not terribly safe from an accuracy standpoint. The lack of other sources regarding viridian is slightly disturbing, considering how fond I am of it. Perhaps I should create my own website, devoted entirely to unraveling the intricacies of color identification. Until then, however, viridian remains controversial.
For that reason, I choose to continue to believe that my favorite color is indeed viridian. While they may be able to take away Pluto's planet-hood, they cannot steal my favorite color and turn it into some other shade of green! Amen!
Oh, and a final note, I'll offer a little trivia question for readers out there, which I will hopefully remember to answer on my next blog entry. Which is a darker shade of blue, Cadet Blue or Cornflower???
One such question asked about my favorite color. I answered honestly with viridian. I know that some people would roll their eyes and mutter, "why don't you just say red, blue, yellow, or purple?" Well, millions of people in the world say their favorite color is red (or rojo, rosso, rouge, or vermelho if you prefer other languages). However, how many people list viridian as their favorite?
At any rate, the person who I was trading information with wrote back, inquiring whether viridian was even a real color, and if it was, what was it? I wrote back a long and slightly indignant explanation that viridian is a silvery shade of green. I find it hard to point to an iconic enough example that everyone could understand it, but it's similar to sea green. The only difference is that sea green is more of a bluish green rather than a silvery green.
Or, at least, that was the impression I was under. Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I did some further research on the color viridian. What I found was rather surprising. According to Wikipedia, viridian is a blue-green pigment that falls between green and cyan on the color wheel. The name comes from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". (Well, go figure...) For anyone truly experienced in color identification, it is listed as 64 points red, 130 points green, and 109 points blue. Now, the results of this research initially kind of ticked me off. I saw viridian before, and it was a silvery green. I feel as though the color they are describing is more like a teal, aquamarine, or the dreadfully uncreative blue-green. However, I take comfort in the fact that since Wikipedia allows anyone to write up its pages, the source is not terribly safe from an accuracy standpoint. The lack of other sources regarding viridian is slightly disturbing, considering how fond I am of it. Perhaps I should create my own website, devoted entirely to unraveling the intricacies of color identification. Until then, however, viridian remains controversial.
For that reason, I choose to continue to believe that my favorite color is indeed viridian. While they may be able to take away Pluto's planet-hood, they cannot steal my favorite color and turn it into some other shade of green! Amen!
Oh, and a final note, I'll offer a little trivia question for readers out there, which I will hopefully remember to answer on my next blog entry. Which is a darker shade of blue, Cadet Blue or Cornflower???
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Comment by Julie Sturgeon on April 27, 2008 at 12:29am
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If you ask me, your favorite color isn't veridian. It's silvery green,
As for your question, I have a 50/50 shot, so I'll pick cadet blue.
Julie, whose favorite color is red. Not scarlet, not rouge, not lipstick, not sunset or strawberry. Just red.
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