I was looking for a sort of ‘database’ for colour names, and found that paint brands have hundreds of colours and are generally super useful. Here are a few of my favourites! At the end, there are a few other sites with colour names as well. Hope this helps.
godavari paints — [ url ]
- shades of blue
- shades of blue-green
- shades of yellow-green
- shades of yellow
- shades of orange
- shades of brown
- shades of red
- shades of pink
- shades of purple
Benjamin Moore [ url ]
Behr [ url ]
- room / style inspo (main page)
- 2015 colour trends (simple web page)
- colour gallery
Dulux [ url ]
- colour gallery
- colour wheel / colour schemes
- 2014 colour trends (simple web page)
The wiki! [ url ]
- compact list of colours
- list of colours A-F
- list of colours G-M
- list of colours N-Z
- list of fictional colours
- crayola crayon colour names
- shades of colours (main page)
- shades of blue
- shades of green
- shades of yellow
- shades of orange
- shades of red
- shades of WHITE – BLACK – GRAY – BROWN
- Wiki’s COLOUR portal
ETC.
- colorhexa – you can even type in the colour’s hexcode and it will give a lot of information on that colour! This site is great, and it even provides colour schemes and alternatives. Very handy.
- design-seeds – a blog that has tons and tons of pretty palettes, generated from images. You can click on a colour, and it will give you other palettes containing that same colour!
- colorcombos – crap ton of palettes and colours. You can input a website’s URL and it will spit back all of the colours used! Handy for making blog pages match the main theme!
- colornames.facts.co – really strange site and terribly formatted/designed, but has hundreds of colour names. You can also choose a specific base colour and see all the variants of it (red, blue, etc.) I would use adblock when going to this site.
- paletton – really, really neat palette generator. To me, it seems very intimidating because of all the options, but it’s very useful.
I hope this mini impromptu colour name guide helps when describing your protag’s love interest’s eye colour B) Just please don’t describe them as orbs…
Every writer needs to have a good sense of color or at least how to describe it. Even if you’re color-blind, you can still use these sites for information and names and descriptors and stuff. Don’t let something like that hold you back from being a writer. Either make it work or make excuses.