02 March 2016

A wonderfully innovative colour thesaurus

On 18 September 2014 I posted a piece entitled Colour thesaurus that has attracted a steady flow of hits.

Today's post is about the wonderfully innovative and remarkably simple Color Thesaurus (her spelling) produced by Ingrid Sundberg.

Here's a small sample:

The next step for translators is to produce validated equivalents in various languages. Anyone out there feel up to the challenge?

More links about colours and languages

by Cath Cellier-Smart ‏@Smart_Translate


“Le petit livre des couleurs” by Michel Pastoureau & Dominique Simonnet, Editions du Panama, 2005
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