Bluegrass White
Laurel Mist
Willow Branch
Water Sprout
Palm Breeze
Pine Scent
I am trying to pick a grey-green for the spare bedroom. I am overwhelmed by choice.
Cascading Water
Lily Pond
Moss Mist
Turtle Dove
Spring Hill
Minnesota Pines
Willow Branch
Water Sprout
Palm Breeze
Pine Scent
I am trying to pick a grey-green for the spare bedroom. I am overwhelmed by choice.
Cascading Water
Lily Pond
Moss Mist
Turtle Dove
Spring Hill
Minnesota Pines
I am impressed by the names, in a way. I imagine the effort that went into them was absurd and heroic.
Pastel Sage
Mountain Haze
Steeplechase
White Mantle
I suppose some clever geek could have devised an automatic name generator and simply churned them out. (Such a thing exists. I just asked it to randomly generate five names and I got: Boston Denim, Cloudy Winter, Cobalt Earth, Mountain Strawberry, and Riviera Rose. Who knows what they look like? Do strawberries even grow on mountains? What kind of person chooses Cloudy Winter?)
I prefer to picture liberal arts schlubs sitting around a table piled high with paint samples. Bandying about Victorian Spice and Creamy Persimmon and Peppermint Orange and Heritage Marshmallow.
It could be fun.
Hemlock Bud
Morning Blend
Or soul-sucking.
Mystical Sea
Or both.
Celery Ice
Part of my job involves naming things. But instead of colour, I work in staid software. Recently I collaborated on an application to allow customers to return products through a Web shop interface.
Me: What’s this … Customer Wish? What does that have to do with returns?
Product Manager: This is where the customer tells the vendor what they want.
Me: What do you mean?
PM: Like a replacement product, or a credit or refund.
Me: Well then. No. Customer Wish won't do. Sounds like the Amazon wish list. Besides, Customer Wish is too flimsy. Wishing is something you do on a star. Or blowing out candles. Returning a product and asking for your money back is too straightforward for that.
PM: Ok, how about Wished Processing?
Me: No. No wishing!
In the end I signed off on Requested Action, squelching whimsy in favour of something colder and more transactional.
Brown Ice
Frosty Beige
Frozen Concrete
Taupe Torpor
It could be fun.
Hemlock Bud
Morning Blend
Or soul-sucking.
Mystical Sea
Or both.
Celery Ice
Part of my job involves naming things. But instead of colour, I work in staid software. Recently I collaborated on an application to allow customers to return products through a Web shop interface.
Me: What’s this … Customer Wish? What does that have to do with returns?
Product Manager: This is where the customer tells the vendor what they want.
Me: What do you mean?
PM: Like a replacement product, or a credit or refund.
Me: Well then. No. Customer Wish won't do. Sounds like the Amazon wish list. Besides, Customer Wish is too flimsy. Wishing is something you do on a star. Or blowing out candles. Returning a product and asking for your money back is too straightforward for that.
PM: Ok, how about Wished Processing?
Me: No. No wishing!
In the end I signed off on Requested Action, squelching whimsy in favour of something colder and more transactional.
Brown Ice
Frosty Beige
Frozen Concrete
Taupe Torpor
3 comments:
I look forward to weekending in your guest room once it's painted a nice pouffy Heritage Marshmallow!
I'll get right on it! I meant to start the paint job last weekend. I got as far as buying a single roll of painter's tape ...
Don't know what colors are where in ur pic but I like the ones on the left. We found we always tended to go w/colors that were classed 'historical'. Who knows what that means....we just liked 'em. Get it down to 2/3/4 & then buy a little jar of @, paint 'em on the wall side x side and look at it in different lighting for a week or so. You'll get it right girl! :)
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