I need some names for colours, in sets

these are my basic colours:

yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, indigo, violet, blue, green

(not grey, brown etc)

if I was to use a jewel/gemstone theme it might be:

gold, topaz, ruby, etc

or fruit:

banana, peach, cherry, plum, blueberry, kiwi etc.

Can you think of any other sets where I might be able to cover that basic colour set?

even if you just throw random colour names at me I'll be writing them down

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Coral

Cornflower

Chartreuse

Cinammon

Cyan

Blue, cyan, pink, gray, etc. The theme is four letter words.

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bird colors...

Peacock (blue)

Pigeon (gray)

Cardinal (red)

Canary (yellow)

Kea (green)

Flamingo (pink)

Oriole (orange)

paintedlady said:

bird colors...

Peacock (blue)

Pigeon (gray)

Cardinal (red)

Canary (yellow)

Kea (green)

Flamingo (pink)

Oriole (orange)

Actually I can go on with this... flowers too.

Raven (black)

Dove (white)

Hawk (brown)

paintedlady said:

bird colors...

Peacock (blue)

Pigeon (gray)

Cardinal (red)

Canary (yellow)

Kea (green)

Flamingo (pink)

Oriole (orange)

Awesome.

paintedlady said:

paintedlady said:

bird colors...

Peacock (blue)

Pigeon (gray)

Cardinal (red)

Canary (yellow)

Kea (green)

Flamingo (pink)

Oriole (orange)

Actually I can go on with this... flowers too.

Raven (black)

Dove (white)

Hawk (brown)

Don't forget Teal.

Genesia said:

paintedlady said:

Actually I can go on with this... flowers too.

Raven (black)

Dove (white)

Hawk (brown)

Don't forget Teal.

Hummingbird? Parrakeet? Which bird is teal?

paintedlady said:

Genesia said:

Don't forget Teal.

Hummingbird? Parrakeet? Which bird is teal?

A teal is a duck.

paintedlady said:

Genesia said:

Don't forget Teal.

Hummingbird? Parrakeet? Which bird is teal?

Edit: NM Genesia's response was better.

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Genesia said:

paintedlady said:

Hummingbird? Parrakeet? Which bird is teal?

A teal is a duck.

Thats right! Forgot that one.

Ok Zombie... I'm stuck on a purple birdie...

now, to make things more difficult, my market is Australian and we don't have most of those birds

ZombieKitten said:

now, to make things more difficult, my market is Australian and we don't have most of those birds

ZombieKitten said:

now, to make things more difficult, my market is Australian and we don't have most of those birds

You couldn't find Austrailian birdies that were a certain color and name the color after the bird?

Damn this should be right up my alley.

You would want to keep Flamingo as pink... its iconic for that color.

paintedlady said:

ZombieKitten said:

now, to make things more difficult, my market is Australian and we don't have most of those birds

You couldn't find Austrailian birdies that were a certain color and name the color after the bird?

I could they just might be a little obscure for 5-8 year olds

I think flamingo is a keeper, EVERYONE knows they are pink

paintedlady said:

ZombieKitten said:

now, to make things more difficult, my market is Australian and we don't have most of those birds

You have the Kea! (which is a favorite bird of mines I made good friends with one at the local zoo, she would play ball with me) I'm a geeky nerd The others people would have to just google... it'll be educational too! same with flowers...

I think they are from New Zealand I just googled, thinking why have I not heard of that

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

You couldn't find Austrailian birdies that were a certain color and name the color after the bird?

I could they just might be a little obscure for 5-8 year olds

I think flamingo is a keeper, EVERYONE knows they are pink

Would you keep

white (dove)

raven (black)

pigeon (gray) also? Isn't the gray parrot there?

Golden eagles too?

so in Australia

Eagle (gold) ?

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

You have the Kea! (which is a favorite bird of mines I made good friends with one at the local zoo, she would play ball with me) I'm a geeky nerd The others people would have to just google... it'll be educational too! same with flowers...

I think they are from New Zealand I just googled, thinking why have I not heard of that

That's correct.. they like to eat human flesh and are so sweet!

paintedlady said:

ZombieKitten said:

I could they just might be a little obscure for 5-8 year olds

I think flamingo is a keeper, EVERYONE knows they are pink

Would you keep

white (dove)

raven (black)

pigeon (gray) also? Isn't the gray parrot there?

Golden eagles too?

so in Australia

Eagle (gold) ?

I'd love to, but I need only the colours in BOLD (now) in my opening post

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

Would you keep

white (dove)

raven (black)

pigeon (gray) also? Isn't the gray parrot there?

Golden eagles too?

so in Australia

Eagle (gold) ?

I'd love to, but I need only the colours in BOLD (now) in my opening post

what cha gonna use for purple? Swamphen?

paintedlady said:

ZombieKitten said:

I'd love to, but I need only the colours in BOLD (now) in my opening post

what cha gonna use for purple? Swamphen?

http://www.google.com.au/...p;gs_rfai=

have no idea

are there any purple animals in the world?

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

what cha gonna use for purple? Swamphen?

http://www.google.com.au/...p;gs_rfai=

have no idea

are there any purple animals in the world?

You guys have a colorful array of birds!

the org is so educational at times

paintedlady said:

ZombieKitten said:

http://www.google.com.au/...p;gs_rfai=

have no idea

are there any purple animals in the world?

You guys have a colorful array of birds!

the org is so educational at times

trouble is so many are totally multi-coloured!!!

Now I get it.

Tried to come up with Pixar characters for each and only ended up with 5. Didn't wanna get too obscure.

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

You guys have a colorful array of birds!

the org is so educational at times

trouble is so many are totally multi-coloured!!!

I know! Rainbow Lorikeets and the Cassoways

Those two birds alone have the entire color spectrum covered.

FauxReal said:

Now I get it.

Tried to come up with Pixar characters for each and only ended up with 5. Didn't wanna get too obscure.

no, and copyright laws would prevent us from using those anyway

There are 9 colours in total, but a group of any 5 would be ideal!!! FauxReal don't be discouraged

What about fish.....

Your coral reef fish are the most diverse in the world right?