Post by Purple on Jan 22, 2014 5:09:24 GMT
Your need to know info.
- Spectral Roots: the feral connection between all colors and the avenue. It's used more often when trying to explain the historical value that personas share with the world beneath their feet. Very rarely used in an everyday conversation. Usually just referred to as 'roots' or 'origins'.
- Essence: this is the natural color pigment that each persona carries. It comes from an odd pocket inside the color's body and is generally the same shade as the color themselves. This is also the name for the glow a color can produce from their eyes in the dark. (Possibly also the origins of the 'glowing eyed alien' theory that some humans have about colors.)
- Pure Shade: a term that is generally used to describe Secondary and Primary colors when used in various text books. It's a term that most have ventured away from thanks to modernization and the advancements in equality among SecoPrimaries and their variations.
- Distorts: These are colors that are believed to have no base. Usually these are neons, pastels, and metallic colors. Shades that do not have a complement but are paired easily with neutral colors. (To each neon a neutral). Mainly used as a slang insult against brighter colors but Pure Shades.
- Hard Colors: Completely primary shades. These are colors that are impossible to achieve by blending other colors. They range in a fashion of blue, red, and yellow. This does NOT include any shades or variations of the colors themselves.
- Soft Colors: Generally viewed as the rest of the spectrum. This includes secondaries and every variation and blend of them. This does not, however, include the monochrome colors.
- Blends: This is the slang word most older colors use for children who are born to a Primary and a Secondary. Considering most are lighter colors, they're viewed as dulls and are often disregarded as normal colors.
- Hybrid Colors: These are shades that are often confused for other colors. This can include violet (as purple), beige (as white), golden rod (as gold), or carrot (as orange); but is of course, not limited to them.
- Negatives: a slang term used when referring to colors ranging between black and white, mostly grays and shades of beige. This may also include lighter pastel colors if used in the right form.
- Spectrals: The proper term for colors, this being how humans refer to them in documentation and other various forms of recording. This may also be the proper way to determine their race against the humans.
- Hued: Often looked at as a racist term by older colors, but is generally viewed as a human-slang term for Spectrals and other variables on the avenue. (ie: Hued products.)
- Tubed Colors: These are shades that have been recreated by Colorless Testing Industries, rather than being born naturally. This can range from humanoid to android in origin. Most of the time, it's considered the taboo topic, but has often been acknowledged by outside resources.
- Taboo Colors: colors that are born to a human and a color. A rather hefty crime even in District B32, this is punishable by execution of the human parent and child. Often having their color essences drained and their bodies dumped. Most taboo colors know of their fate and keep it quiet, this is a topic no color will touch often.
- Twin Colors: Much like hybrid colors, this is the colors that are direct origins to primaries or secondaries with the same pigmentation, but different variables. (Violet being more red than blue and purple being more blue than red.) This may also refer to close resembling pastel colors or whites and grays.
- Piff: This is simply a slang insult that seemed to show up after the apocalypse. Origins are pretty much as unknown as any other random insult.