Hamilton - Color Words for Writers

Say It With Color! Writers Toolbox of Alternate Color Names Saves your precious time and provides instant inspiration for : Copywriters evoking powerfully persuasive visual images Marketers describing a hot new product A rticle writers adding brilliant zing to their work Fundraisers bringing to life a heart-warming story Bloggers giving vividness to their posts Web content writers seeking lean, sleek, riveting prose Novelists and poets depicting a blazing winter sunset or the color of love Anyone who needs a brainwave quickly for a gripping color description not limited to plain red or blue or green.. A writers resource of just about every color you can imagine all at your finger tips right there. Writing, no matter what kind, must appeal to the readers imagination. Nothing does that better than painting pictures for the mind. To paint a picture, you must use color! Color is communication at its vibrant best. It evokes memory and creates a connection to the mental image.

At a subconscious level, color creates an immediate physiological effect It can calm, soothe, reassure and lower the pulse rate. Or it can stimulate, excite and send blood racing through the veins. It makes your writing alive and immediate, physically and mentally. Whether youre a novelist, a poet, a direct mail copywriter, an entrepreneur striving for effective advertising or a lover writing to your sweetheart, color is a powerful tool to get your message across. Whether on the page or out in the real world, color has a direct impact. Owners of a new restaurant, for example, wondered why their customers ordered little and refused to linger.

The business was slowly failing until the owners realized the sleek ice blue decor, combined with the wintery landscape outside, was making their patrons feel chilly and uncomfortable. Once redecorated in warm yellow, red and peach tones, the restaurant began to boom as customers suddenly found their appetites and stayed for dessert in the cheery, stimulating atmosphere. Cool colors blue, green, silver, turquoise calm, soothe and recede before the eyes. Warm colors red, yellow, orange, pink, gold stimulate, excite and seem to advance. Choose the right colors and you control the reaction. The smart writer and the smart entrepreneur know it can do wonders for business and for your life.

Autumn The rusts and rich bronzes of autumn bring a feeling of maturity, abundant harvest, wealth and warmth. AUTUMN Auburn Autumn leaf Bay Brandy Brass Brick Bronze Copper Copperplate Desert fox Ember Fall maple Ferruginous Flower pot Fox Henna Hennaberry Irish setter Maple Ochre Prairie sunset Pumpkin Red cedar Redwood Roan Rum Russet Rust Sorrel Sunset Terra cotta Tiger eye Titian Vixen Beige Beige is the truly flexible color, highlighting and absorbing the attributes of whatever is near. It is a traditional relaxing background color. Its neutrality can be seen either as warm or even dull. It is dependable, conservative and a safe choice. Yet it can be a magnificent backdrop to the most daring, brilliant displays.

BEIGE Almond Alpaca Atoll Badlands Bamboo Beac h Beachside Beige Biscotti Biscuit Bisque Bistre Blonde Broom Buckskin Buckwheat Buff Burlap Buttermilk Camel Chamois Champagne Corn Corn husk Corn silk Corn stalk Cove Cream Cream soup Danish blonde Deer belly Desert Desert rat Desert hare Dove Driftwood Dun Dusk Dust Ecru Eggshell Fawn Flaxen Greige Hay Honey Khaki Lion Lynx Marsh grass Mushroom Natural Neutral Nude Oat Oatmeal Outback Pear Puma Raffia Sable Sack Sand Sandstone Sea shell Sea grass Shell Sisal Soybean Straw Suede Tan Taupe Tawny Viking blond Wheat Wicker Wooden shoe Black Black, the absence of color, is confident, strong, conservative. It has a powerful air of mystery yet can be sexy and sophisticated, providing a vivid contrast to whatever is juxtaposed. Black can also mean mourning, sorrow and evil. Phrases: black box, black tie, black belt, in the black, pitch black, black hat, black sheep, black market, blackguard, black-hearted, blacklist, blackmail, black eye, black out BLACK Andiron Anvil Asphalt Basalt Bear paw Beetle Bile Black Black bear Black fly Black tie Black ice Black cat Black current Blackberry Bolt Bull Bunker oil Burnt Cave Char Charcoal Cinder Cinderblock Clinker Coal Crow Crude oil Demon Devils Ebony Fire pit Graveyard Hell India ink Ink Iron Jet Lampblack Loam Midnight Moonless Murky Obsidian Oil patch Oil Oil spill Old rubber Onyx Panther Patent leather Pepper Persian lamb Pit Raisin Raven Rot Sable Shoe polish Skunk Sludge Smoky Soot Styx Swart Thunderhead Tractor tire Transmission oil Truffle Tunnel Underworld Whale back Blue Blue calms the mind, lowers blood pressure and decreases respiration. It is the color of the sky. It is strong, steadfast and trustworthy.

It is associated with confidence, stability, importance and conservatism. Note how many banks and corporations choose blue as their color. Many services, such as police and security officers wear blue uniforms as a sign of reassurance. Seen as a source of peace, blue is great for bedrooms as it is conducive to sleep. Phrases: true blue, out of the blue, wild blue yonder, blue skies, blue skying, blue ribbon, blue Monday, blue blood, baby blue, got the blues, blue heaven, deep blue sea, blue horizon, the blues, post-partum blues, into the blue, swear a blue streak, blue nose, blue Monday, blue note, singing the blues, blue with cold, blue collar Turquoise Turquoise is calming and sophisticated. It is the refreshing color of water and tropical bays.

It is a wonderful rich blue stone speaking of the American Southwest. BLUE Adriatic Alice Aqua Aquamarine Azure Baby Bayou Beryl Blowfly Blue mould Blue spruce Blueberry Bluebird Blue jay Capri Cedar berry Cerulean Chevy Cobalt Cornflower Cote D'Azur Dagger Deepwater Denim Forget-me-not Great Lake Harbour Heron Horizon Ice blue Indigo Iris Lake Lapis lazuli Loyalist Marine Midnight Morning glory Mountain pool Navy Ocean Pacific Patriot Peacock Periwinkle Police Porcelain Powder Prussian Robin's egg Royal Sapphire Sea Seacrest Slate Sky Spode Steel Teal Tory Tranquility True Turquoise Ultramarine Wedgewood Wildflower Woad Brown Brown is earthiness, dependability, solid grounding and steadfastness. It is friends and warmth, representing the very earth beneath our feet. It also can be chosen by corporations wanting to project stability. Phrases: brown bag, brown out, brown study, brown off, brown nose, browner BROWN Acorn Adobe Ale Allspice Almond Anchovy Appleseed Armadillo Auburn Augean Bannock Bark Barley Barn owl Barracuda Bay Bayou Beagle Beaver Beech Beer Beetle Biscuit Bisque Boa Constrictor Bog Boredom Bouillon Bovril Bracken Briar Bridle Bronze Brown sugar Brown bag Brunette Burlap Burnt umber Burnt sienna Caffeine Calfskin Cappuccino Caramel Carob Chestnut Chimpanzee Cocoa Chocolate Cider Cinnabar Cinnamon Cinnamon stick Cinnaspice Clove Cocoa Cocoa bean Coconut Codfish Coffee grounds Coffee Cognac Cookie Copper Cork Cowhide Crocodile Cumin Dapple Dune Eagle Earth Earthwood Ecru Elm Falcon Fava Fawn Fresh bread Fruitwood Fudge Ginger Ginger snap Grizzly Guitar Hazel Heartwood Hickory Honey Honey mead Irish whiskey Jackrabbit Java Khaki Leather Liver Macaroon Mahogany Mainsail Maple Mincemeat Mink Moccasin Mocha Mongrel Monkey Moose Mud Mud slide Muddy water Muskrat Mustang Nut Oak Ochre Oil Old spice Ox hide Peanut butter Peat Pecan Pigskin Pine needle Porcupine Potato Prairie dog Puce Quail Raisin Rattlesnake Rawhide Redwood Reindeer Russet Sand Sable Saddle Sandalwood Seal Sienna Sepia Sherry Shipping crate Shoe leather Sienna Silt Snakeskin Snuff Spice Stoat Stout Sugar shack Tabby Tan Tawny Tea leaves Tea Tea Stain Teak Terra cotta Thatch Timber Toast Toffee Truffle Tweed Twig Umber Vandyke Walnut Walnut Whiskey Whiskey Woo d CLEAR Cloudless Colorless Crystal Crystalline Diamond Diaphanous Glassy Ice Ice cube Lambent Lacquer Limpid Lucid Mountain air Mirror Pellucid Plexiglas Pure Stainless Starlight Transparent Translucent Uncolored Vermouth Vodka Wate r GENERAL Balloon Bird of paradise Calliope Chevy Fiesta Hollyhock Horizon Iridescent Jube jube Lollipop Neon brights Nordic Notice-me Pale Pastel Pastels Primaries Rainbow Two-tone Green Green is the color of nature and life. It signifies growth, health, abundance, renewal, one with nature, spring, Ireland, environmental responsibility.