Please consider this statement a moderate blue that is redder and duller than average copen and redder and deeper than azurite blue, dresden blue, or pompadour. What does that tell you? Essentially nothing unless youre a colour physicist. So you look up copen and what you get is more of the same; it leads to infinite regression because theres no entry that leads to the colour of the sky. How can one blue be redder than another? Sure, just add some value to the R component of the RGB value. And what does that tell you? Nothing. But these definitions are whats in Websters Third Edition, and will probably persist in the fourth edition. Is there a way to define colours *effectively* using just words? Or is a swatch needed to do the job?
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:23:09 +0000