Some articles on colors, color:
... Orient" due to their beauty and wide range of colors which are produced through selective breeding ... Wild fish exhibit strong colors only when agitated ... Colors available to the aquarist include red, blue, black, turquoise, orange, yellow, green, bright blue with pink highlights, cream and even true white (the "Opaque ...
... strict dress code which limits the type, style and colors of clothing and jewelry students may wear ... The main colors are shades of blue, white, gray, and black ... Colors may not be worn mono-chromatically ...
... In color theory, two colors are called complementary if, when mixed in the proper proportion, they produce a neutral color (grey, white, or black) ... In roughly-perceptual color models, the neutral colors (white, greys, and black) lie along a central axis ... For example, in the HSV color space, complementary colors (as defined in HSV) lie opposite each other on any horizontal cross-section ...
More definitions of "colors":
- (noun): A distinguishing emblem.
Example: "His tie proclaimed his school colors"
Synonyms: colours
Famous quotes containing the word colors:
“How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It’s only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is no possible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you’ve made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors—neutral gray.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)