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I read today, that the colour that we know as "pink" was not ever thus.
Any idea of the name we give to the colour that used to be called "pink"?
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Quote your source. AnnaS requested that Jo quote her source.  at wow & CapK.
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>Quote your source
The National Trust magazine (England & Wales) - Spring 2001, article on paint colours used in National Trust properties.
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Works for me.
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I don't know what color pink used to be, but I'm hoping your source can answer my previously posed question of why we have a special word to describe pastel red?
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>pastel red
Maybe that was why it changed. You can't say "Pastel red to make the boys wink".
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Not to answer your question, but.
There is a group of flowers known as xxx pink (xxx = e.g., swamp, mullein, clove, etc.) the colors of which seem to center vaguely around the color we now know as pink. Have to run an OED to find out which way that went.
AHD lists the origin of the word pink in the context of color or flowers as Unknown. The other pink comes from the Latin pingere.
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Um… technically speaking (which technician?), pink is not a whiter shade of red. In printing, and in art, pink is treated as a special colour in its own right, whereas 'light' red, is usually referred to as a screen (0% to 100% - some of you will be able to recreate this in the 'special colours' section in your computer's graphics area) of red. Similarly, grey is not necessarily the same as a screen of black, though in the four colour printing process (using cyan, magenta, yellow and black), a screen of black stands in for grey as a screen of red (with a dash of blue) stands in for pink. For authenticity, however, you might add a fifth colour to your printing (adding cost as well), such as 'special pink' (also available as a poster paint colour, and it stinks like something it would be obscene and inappropriate to characterise on this board).
This, convolutedly, is the reason why we don't say 'light black' or 'light red' - they are conventionally treated in art as separate colours in their own right - and you will not be able to mix up a convincing pink with just red and white - at least some blue will be involved. And no, that doesn't make it 'merely' light purple either.
Actually, the issue of colour cropped up in a thread some months ago, and tsuwm the magnificent linked us to an absolutely marvellous site that told yu more about colour than your were ever minded to know. If you try a search on color, spectrum, or color wheel, you might find the thread.
And Jo, was it called 'rose' like the French? Or 'madder'? (Or is that redundant?)
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I looked "pink" up to try to make a jest about it being the color on a white shirt after being tinted by a rapier stained with hemoglobin. The etymology suggests this was the original meaning .I was surprised to find that foxhunters' colors were called pink. But the first definition referred to the flower so well known.
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I was going to make a note about the foxhunter's coat, which is actually scarlet, but Bill beat me to it. I have heard that the reason it's called 'pink' is because that was the name of the tailor who first made one. Can anyone verify or correct this?
While we're on this red-color binge/tinge, I take the opportunity to lament the contemporary ignorance of the common shades of red. Few people nowadays know the difference between scarlet and crimson, or are even aware that there is a difference.
And that leads me to a rant on the blue colors. It seems that no one anymore knows that there is a color called violet, which is not the same as purple. At least 95% of the time, when people say/write 'purple' they really mean 'violet' or some shade of violet, like lavender or lilac.
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