Yukio Ota’s running man
“Fans of Ota’s running man point to two key advantages: It’s a pictogram,
and it’s green. The sign’s wordlessness means it can be understood even
by people who don’t speak the local language. And the green color, they
argue, just makes sense. Green is the color of safety, a color that
means go the world over.”
—Julia Turner, The Secret Language of Signs, Slate, March 1, 2010.
Eigengrau
“Eigengrau (German: ‘intrinsic gray’), also called Eigenlicht (‘intrinsic light’), dark light, or brain gray, is the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness. Even in the absence of light, some action potentials are still sent along the optic nerve, causing the sensation of a uniform dark gray color.
Eigengrau is perceived as lighter than a black object in normal lighting conditions, because contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute brightness. For example, the night sky looks darker than eigengrau because of the contrast provided by the stars.”
a green sky
“The storm left with the silence of a vacuum and a green sky overhead.”
—Barry Hannah, Boomerang, 1989.
Richard Hell
a purple diamond
“The sun comes up like a purple diamond.”
—Barry Hannah, Boomerang, 1989.
everything is blue again
“wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning.”
—Pablo Neruda, “It is born”.
perpetual green
“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
—John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962.
an infinite traveler
“I put on clean clothes and went out with him into the star-raddled night. And the Aurora Borealis was out. I’ve seen it only a few times in my life. It hung and moved with majesty in folds like an infinite traveler upstage in an infinite theater. In colors of rose and lavender and purple it moved and pulsed against the night, and the frost-sharpened stars shone through it.”
—John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962.
reds and yellows you can’t believe
“The climate changed quickly to cold and the the trees burst into color, the reds and yellows you can’t believe. It isn’t only color but a glowing, as though the leaves gobbled the light of the autumn sun and then released it slowly. There’s a quality of fire in these colors.”
—John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962.
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