A question for the guys out there, do you have the same problem I do with colors?

[Solon]

I can identify easily, red, pink, green, yellow, orange, blue, purple, black, white, gray, and brown. Those are the labels I use for pretty much every color I see. The only others that may count and I consider exotic are silver, gold, and copper. Yeah, I pretty much learned my colors from a basic Crayola box.

But send me to a hardware store to pick out colors for paint, and I'm fucking lost, what the fuck is mauve? Hell, the only color I'd recognize is aquamarine, everything else would be a variation of the above colors, I'd call something light green if its light green dammit, I don't need a new label or word to memorize! Or greenish-blue, or yellowish orange, or whatever.

Oh, and I have a question, if there are "off-whites" are there "off-blacks" as well, and why not just call them light or dark gray instead?

I'm asking the guys because it seems to be more typical for us to think of the basic colors, and not all the variations in between.

Just my brainfart for the day. :dunce: