6 Colors Named After People
Color is one of the design’s most important elements. And so it should come as no surprise that there are several colors named after the basic elements found in nature, such as “grassy green” or “sky blue.” But then there’s a whole variety of colors named specifically for the people who made them famous, the musicians who custom-mixed them on their palettes, the scientists who created them, the celebrities and the debutants who popularised them.
Read about 6 colors named after people.
1. ALICE BLUE
A pale azure blue named for the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was known for wearing colored gowns and thus started a trend. She was also notorious for public smoking and other ways of mischief-making, which prompted her father to announce: “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” Alice ice-blue dresses inspired Joseph McCarthy and Harry Tierney’s song “Alice Blue Gown” which premiered in the Broadway musical Irene in 1919.
