So I was listening to the radio the other day and some guy was talking about a chartreuse (chartruese?) crystal decanter that his Mom used to have. And so I was thinking, that’s weird. Who has a pale purple set of crystal? And then later he was talking about the decanter, and he said it was light green.
Setting aside the question of who has a pale green set of crystal (like witches, wood elves, and people who drink chai), I had to make an adjustment to my mental color wheel. Chartreueuse is actually green, not purple.
But when I called up the color wheel in my mind, I pretty much realized that the name of every color I do not recognize is really light purple.
So if you’re ever talking to me about colors (of houses, T-shirts, internal organs), then you should know that this is what I’m working with:
PS–you should also know that in my stemware wheel, a decanter is a cup, only smaller. Kind of like a hi-ball glass or a saucer.
