Talk:Colour words
From Toki Pona
Colours are a slippery spectrum in any language. Where does one colour begin and the other one end? Colours can be explained using three parts:
- Hue: what part of the rainbow
- Saturation: pure, vivid or intense vs. dull and greyish
- Lightness: light or white vs. dark or black
Saturation 100, Lightness 50 add 40/70
- lightness 80 = +walo
- lightness 95 = walo+
- lightness 21 saturation 100 = +pimeja
- 12 50 pimeja+
deep red = carmine
colour, pigment, paint, dye
jelo = yellow, brownish yellow
play with different face paints designs
ealiest pigments were probably: -ochre -raw sienna -umber
Colours are often used to refer to more specific things by their colour)
a certain quality... ? different from nasin and from (wasn't there another word i almost merged with colour?)
telo loje telo walo etc.
kule color kule paint kule colorful kule color (vt) kule paint (vt) kule colorful kule ala transparent kule ala walo ala transparent redundant kule jaki brown kule lon palisa luka nail polish kule moku taste kule pi jan Apika brown ? kule pi telo wawa brown ? kule sewi rainbow
We can easily use the HSL colour (model?) to describe Toki Pona colour words.
hue, saturation, lightness
colour wheel
kolor·cirkl·o
hue = nuanco En la kolorcirklo, la kvalita karakteriza?o de koloro: la angula koordinato. Respondas al la frekvenco de videbla lumondo. saturation puro (intensity?) lightness helo
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walo increases the lightness lightness and saturation, makes a colour ligher or more intense?
pimeja makes a colour darker or duller.?
The five basic colour words in Toki Pona are:
pimeja black, dark (#000000)
walo white, light (#ffffff)
loje red
jelo yellow
laso blue-green
teal #008080
colour with black is half and half
colour with white is 5 iterations, lightest one and middle one
jelo pimeja dark yellow (mustard, old gold) (#7f7f00)
jelo walo pale yellow (butter, straw)
laso pimeja dark blue-green
laso walo light blue-green (baby blue, cyan)
loje pimeja dark red (maroon, burgundy)
loje walo light red (pink)
pimeja walo blackish white (light grey)
walo pimeja whitish black (dark grey)
walo jelo off-white, cream, ivory
The modifier pimeja is used to make a colour darker or more muted, and walo to make a colour lighter.
jelo loje pimeja dark orange (burnt orange, brown, terracotta, rust)?
loje laso walo light magenta, lavender?
It is also possible to use a non-colour word as a reference.
kule ma earth or dirt colour, e.g. brownish, ochre, depends strongly on context
kule mun moon colour, e.g. silver, light grey
The modifier suno can be added to make a shade “shiny, metallic, (bright, luminescent,) glossy”.
ilo pi kalama musi li jelo suno
The musical instrument is metallic yellow, i.e. brass-coloured.
violet - indigo - blue - aqua - green - yellow - orange - red - dark red
kule = colourful
