Talk:Purple Streak/@comment-27862439-20160415185935

How is “eggplant” more understandable than “dark purple”? If you want to argue about precision, take a look at this and see how much variation there is. “Descriptive” colour words are terribly imprecise, and that's partially because people have only a vague idea of what they look like, if they do at all. Just because “coquelicot” and “ecru” have specific hex codes doesn't mean that people will understand or use them accurately. For the sake of clarity, I only ever use ‘common’ colour names and modifiers like dark, light, dull, bright, tinted, etc. I wish I could get away with using “saturated” and “unsaturated”, but it usually just sounds out of place.

Sorry, I had to rant a bit. Colours are serious business.