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And I mean for real, not the hex code.
Green. A really browny green.
Booger
I’d call it “olive”.
I you’ll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there’s no exact word for “blue” in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer’s famous “wine-dark sea”.
As a blind person I’m more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, “green” describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells “earthy”, flowers smell “floral” and so on.
But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have “odor colors” as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.
Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.
Dark Mustard
This one seems to be the closest, unironically. Now my curiosity is satisfied and my soul at peace.
Mustard IN the dark
Mustard after dark. 🦵
I call it Captain Kirk’s Shirt.

Command Yellow
Baby-shit green.
Scrolled way too far to see this
Didn’t scroll far enough for the truth.
Ochre.
Yup, maybe a dash muddier but the scenic tints basically look like that.
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
Yellow ochre gives a similar result, but is missing the blue tones that make slightly green
Shitreuse
Or shartreuse
Dark yellow olive tone (#7B690B)
Too yellow to be olive green, too green to be proper mustard yellow.
Olive yellow or green mustard, your choice
More like olive stylish
In French, caca d’oie - “goose poo”.
Mouse’s breath
Lol, is that an actual colour? I’m googling and the results are “mouse’s back”, although that one’s too gray IMO…
Farrow and Ball are renowned for having bullshit pijo names for their paints, I just mixed elephants breath and mouse’s back
What is an “actual” color?
Looks like theres a site you can use to get color names. It says its called Browny Green
https://colors.artyclick.com/color-names-dictionary/color-names/browny-green-color
Lol cmon did mitch hedberg name that?
1970 called and it wants its color back.









