Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Color Smarts

Did you know there is an official book of colors? There is. It is tremendously expensive, which makes it a slight privilege to have seen, but it exists. It has practical purposes such as helping airliners speak to the people designing their burberry fabric seats with accuracy and don't end up with a fuchsia monstrosity when they wanted a more subtle mauve.

Can you imagine ordering Louis Vuitton fabric for a hundred thousand designer purses and ending up with an algae slime or teal instead a soothing sea green? If that were to happen, Gucci fabric would have a heyday until their midnight blue looked like the black hole on Star Trek.

Cinderella could have had a great time with this color book. Of course, any prince would be nuts to give such a thing to a new princess bride. Castles are huge and the amount of redecorating possible would empty the royal coffers in minutes. No, he was smart to keep the book locked in the library, that way she stays content with pumpkin coach fabric and will never know the difference.

In a more modern setting, there are college professors who use this book for classroom competitions. Secretly, they may be searching for the next great color communicator to work with the airlines and busing services.

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