Thursday, July 14, 2022

Naming Paints

Should I paint the bathroom Song of Summer, Disco Nap, or Salty Tear?

Of course those weren't my only choices. 

I'd decided not to go with Kitten Whiskers, Phantom Mist, Grandma's Refrigerator, Subtle Touch, Dangerous Robot, Divine Pleasure, Banana Jellybean, Hamster Cuddles, Mermaid Net, Lazy Lizard, Spirit Whisper, Golly Tamale, Summer's Secret, and Wind's Breath.

And, yes. Those are all real paint color names.

As are these:

Daytona Peach

Un-teal We Meet Again

Newborn Baby

Hyperlink

In Your Eyes

Snugglepuss

Pennies from Heaven

Feel the Energy

Marry Me


But my favorites come from Farrow & Ball: 

Mole's Breath

Sulking Room Pink

Dead Salmon

Dead Salmon? Joa Studholme, Farrow & Ball’s color curator, explains,“Dead Salmon has a terrible connotation, but it’s derived from an old painter’s invoice that the team found at a historic hall in England. It’s from 1805. Salmon is the color, and dead refers to the matte paint finish; it has nothing to do with the fish being dead, but put together, it’s amusing.”


I want a job naming paint colors.




1 comment:

  1. A paint color shouldn't conjure up the smell of dead fish. Or newborn baby, for that matter. Great post!

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