I can time myself to see how long it takes me to pick a color. Maybe I’ll win a medal!
This post title is a little misleading. I don’t know if either of us needs a signature color but the title gave me today’s post and I’m not one to let the slim chance that this is a good idea wither on the vine.
After yesterday’s post on Beyoncé and her latest quest to get her name into the public mainstream (yeah…I can’t figure that one out, either) 1pointperspective offered up a series of comments related to “if your name was a color swatch what would it be” that got me thinking:
What is a signature color and do I need one?
The only time I’ve heard people use the phrase signature color is for weddings. Remember the movie, Steel Magnolias, and how Julia Roberts’ character insisted that her signature colors for her wedding were “blush & bashful?” The men in the film thought her pinks were just that…pink. But women know there are subtle differences between shades of the same color hue. It’s one of the things that makes us so amazing. We can discern small differences not readily apparent to the male eye. And while that does make us amazing, it also can drive us bat-shit crazy.
Like when the guy does the laundry and folds the towels and you notice he’s folded them the wrong way. Or put the toilet paper on the wrong way. Or when he puts his shoes away…with the left and right opposite each other. Everyone knows that’s totally wrong.
What was I talking about? Ah, yes. Signature colors.
Anyway, 1PP (I hope it’s okay to go with the diminutive form of his name) suggested:
More people should go to the paint swatch displays at Home Depot instead of wasting valuable money on baby name books. Plus, you’ll save precious time deciding what color to paint the nursery.
This led me to reply:
Okay…you’ve got me all abuzz with the possibilities. New name for Blogdramedy??? And, please, base it on a premium paint brand color swatch. Because I’m so prime. *snort* Prime.
I slay me.
And that exchange of brilliance led to this:
You send the names and some copy and I’ll write some copy and combine your copy and my copy and then…hello? You still there???
Then he had to take a break to write a post for his blog. I guess he has his priorities. It would have been easier just to refer you to yesterday’s comment section but then I would have missed out on adding all these quotes to today’s post. A feature I don’t use often enough. So impactful. I’m impressed.
Anyway. Back to signature color.
I’m partial to turquoise. A blue turquoise. Not green. Blue…like this:
And this:
Bahamas 2010. I remember swimming in this water…bliss.
So, I’m hoping 1PP comes back with some swatches in this general color range. Otherwise I’ll have to hurt him bad.
It should make for an interesting post. If he remembers to add this to his to-do list. If not, I’ll pretend to be him (anyone got a pair of really big red shoes I can borrow…to get me in the mood) and pick some color names and amuse myself with picking out a new name and writing about it.
They say that the color your surround yourself with says a lot about you. I also like black. I’m not sure what that says about me other than it makes it easy to get dressed in the morning.
Red is supposed to bring energy. Yellow is cheery. Green is associated with envy. I’m not sure what Salmon is supposed to do…other than make you think fish.
So I’m thinking…yes I need a signature color. I hope it has a really cool name. Like “Scooter.” Which just happens to be the name of the color I painted the floor in our guest room. And while that is a really cool name, I won’t be changing this blog’s name to Scooter. I’m not a Scooter kind of girl. Vespa, yes. Scooter, no.
It’s a theoretical initiative only…I won’t actually change my name. How would anybody find me? But for fun…it’s sounds like a winner. In theory.
Do you have a signature color and if so…what is it and why?
Sorry I’ve been a little tardy on the color swatch names. If my wife found out I was at Home Depot in the paint department, I could have ended up disappearing from the blogoshere for as long as it would take to paint the guest room, the powder room and rehang the curtains. It would have been less dangerous for me to go to the nearest cheap motel, park out on the highway where everyone could see my car and come home four hours later smelling of cheap perfume and covered in stripper glitter.
For the record, I wasn’t so much in a mind of signature colors (because you know, I’m a guy and all), as I was thinking of the creative names that paint companies come up with for “beige”…or is it “ecru”…is ecru a color or a small marsupial found in West Africa?
I like your idea better! Forgive me for getting the original concept wrong. I do that a lot.
You come up with 11 creative names (with some copy) and I’ll do the same then we can mix and match in a post. Sound good?
Skipped the store and went to various (premium) paint websites – have 15 color names. Where you want ‘em lady?
Got a bunch of them (15 or so) with smart assed comment after each. Should I email them to you? My email is dlovett54@gmail.com
Dear Mr. Smart Ass:
Send ‘em along to blogdramedy@gmail.com please.
Thanks,
Ms. Smart Asset
you’re still snippy over the “give good comment” comment?
Snippy? Snippy!
I don’t think you read my reply to the “give good comment” comment. That comment wasn’t just good…it was grrrreat!
I like this idea. I meandered around the hardware store just yesterday afternoon and had to keep myself from looking at the swatch names because once I do that, I’m attached.
Blue turquoise looks good on you …and the water…and the blog.
Slight change in plans. Since I screwed up and 1pointperspective pointed out the error of my ways. It’s not so much a name change for Blogdramedy as creative names for the paint colors. But that’s another post.
I need the fancy names of course, but gray, black, lilac. That’s me – though I’m not sure what is says about me that I have such a limited wardrobe color palette…
It says you’re a classy broad.
Color. What’s the big deal? It’s just a specific area of the spectrum of light. People don’t often ask me what my favorite UHF band is.
Color is one of the things that matter little in my life. People will tell me that different colors have different meanings. “Perhaps to you,” I’ll quippishly retort.
Sometimes people we ask, “What is your favorite color?” I honestly don’t have an answer for that. I know some people are really into a specific color. They are known for wearing purple, living in a purple house, driving a purple car and accessorizing everything in purple. I just think that’s weird. Perhaps their brains are wired so that certain portions of the light spectrum light up the pleasure centers of their brain.
Me? I’m more well-rounded than that. Which probably also explains why I don’t look good in black, which is the ultimate color.
You’re right. You’re more of a “if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be” person. Personally, I’m a Pop(u)lar.
You mentioned the color purple quite a bit in your reply. Color me jealous that you worked in Oprah and Prince. You da man!
I’m surprised you don’t think you look good in black…that’s the color you wear in my imagination. All tall, dark and mysterious. (Of course, you also look like Karl Urban in my dreams so…)
I’m still trying to figure out what my theme song is. (Remember Ally McBeal, and how she had to have a theme song?) Maybe a color would be easier for me to select.
I do think picking a color is easier. For one thing there are no lyrics to decipher. No deciding if you’re classic or punk. Solo artist versus group. Indie or mainstream. The list goes on.
However this is a valid quest. Crank up your iPod or stereo and get busy!
Every time I hear a new song, I think – This is IT! and then they say something dumb in the lyrics.
What…you mean like…
“I’m too sexy for…(sounds good so far) my shirt. So so sexy it hurts.”
Or…
The lyrics to most country & western songs.
I kind of liked “F@#$ You” until I heard the entire rest of the song. Maybe just the title could be my theme?
I don’t know. That’s a tough call. Are you sure that you want expletives to be your theme? That leaves things open to interpretation. Readers could think you mean another F-word like…Frog. And then you’d be confused with Kermit. Which is fine if you’re into frogs and inter-species relationships.
I can’t say I into frogs or not. I’ve never met one that I was attracted to, but I like to think of myself as open-minded.
Being open-minded is all anyone can ask. On behalf of frogs everywhere…ribbit, ribbit.
I have been ‘coloring’ my world for years. Earlier this year I finished coloring me entire downstairs with the exception of my kitchen which is next years project. Before the end of this year, my upstairs will be re-colored. Personally, I prefer Sherwin Williams colors over Home Depot, but that is just me.
Being married to a Bahamian, we tend to bring lots of the colors of the islands into our home. Where I tend toward the neutrals, even with my purples (love these) he tends toward the brights so we always compromise. The rooms that are always off-limits to him are my office and library, he has no say! These rooms are done in food colors, my office ceiling is currently Milk Chocolate and the walls are Apricots and Caramels.
Color is important!
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All the cars I have owned — with the exception of Buzz, where I didn’t get the choice — have been some sort of grey. Typically metallic grey — some trending to silver, some trending to black. I’m not sure what that says about me.
However, upon going to our friends at Sherwin Williams, I realized that I like earth tones. They make me calm. For me, I think my favorite is “Svelte Sage” (http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-collection/todays-colors/purely-refined/#) — which is funny, because I am not particularly svelte nor sagacious. Perhaps it’s something to shoot for.
Going for grey means you are steely…like a steely-eyed missile man. And green is James Bond’s favorite color so you’re in good company.
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