big brown eyes

“I don’t know what you’ve been told
But I love them project hoes.
Dooky breasts, big old thighs,
Contact lens, and big brown eyes.”

The Little Rascals Brass Band, from Knock with Me, Rock with Me, recorded in 2001.

Call me diamond, call me gold

“Call me diamond, call me gold
I have been bought, been sold. . . .

Oh come on, come on, dig my mine.
Oh come on, come on, kiss me,
Kiss me all along my spine.”

—The Incredible String Band, from Call Me Diamond, composed and sung by Mike Heron.

Red yellow green, purple or blue

“Every year for Carnival Time,
We make a new suit.
Red yellow green, purple or blue,
We make a new suit.
We got feathers on our crowns
That stand about eight feet high,
In every color of the rainbow,
Were beautiful, I aint lying!
Every year for Carnival Time,
We make a new suit.
We make a new suit.”

—from New Suit by The Wild Magnolias, first recorded in 1970.

Achromatic colors.

Black, gray, and white.
—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Brilliance.

The luminance of a color. Dependent on the surface characteristics of the colored object.

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Chromatic colors.

All the colors that remain after excluding the achromatic colors (black, gray, and white).

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Color circle.

“The arrangement of spectral colors to form a closed circle, with the opposite ends of the spectrum being linked by purple.”

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Color scale.

“The range of colors possessed by an organism such as a butterfly, or created by a designer, for example.”

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Color space.

“The three-dimensional portrayal of colors which arises from the fact that each color can be determined by three factors (hue, saturation, and brightness).”

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.

Color tint or shade.

“A fine difference in color hue, lighter in the case of a tint, and darker in the case of a shade.”

—Color Systems in Art and Science, edited by Klaus Stromer, translated from the German by Randy Cassada, 1999.