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deckardcanine) wrote2022-04-17 09:58 pm
deckardcanine) wrote2022-04-17 09:58 pm
Brown
In early years, I learned that brown’s a color all its own,
Resulting when you mix the hues of yellow, blue, and red.
It’s only in adulthood that I’ve come across insistence
That brown is just a name for several orange shades instead.
It makes a certain kind of sense; the CMYK model
To print or paint in brown combines the orange stuff with black.
Though RGB makes use of red and green in right proportions,
The light’s distinctly yellow when the mix is out of whack.
The term is from Old English brún, which also links with burnish.
The first recorded use of brown was circa Y1K.
Back then, it could refer to any dark or dusky color,
And Middle English changed it to the meaning used today.
Resulting when you mix the hues of yellow, blue, and red.
It’s only in adulthood that I’ve come across insistence
That brown is just a name for several orange shades instead.
It makes a certain kind of sense; the CMYK model
To print or paint in brown combines the orange stuff with black.
Though RGB makes use of red and green in right proportions,
The light’s distinctly yellow when the mix is out of whack.
The term is from Old English brún, which also links with burnish.
The first recorded use of brown was circa Y1K.
Back then, it could refer to any dark or dusky color,
And Middle English changed it to the meaning used today.