Weโre huge fans of Katy Kelleherโs writing on color. She recently wrote a spot-on piece for Vogue about Pantoneโs odd โcolor of the yearโ choices. (Spoiler: a drab gray, paired with a pale yellow.)
Over at the Paris Review, she does in-depth profiles of color as part of a column named โย get this โ โHueโs Hue.โ Weโve shared a few of these nerdy delights as editorโs picks in the past; we especially loved recent ruminations on periwinkle, russet, and verdigris. The entire series is worth your time.
Periwinkle goes by many names. You might know her by one of her more fabulous monikers, like sorcererโs violet or fairyโs paintbrush. In Italy, she is called fiore di morte (flower of death), because it was common to lay wreaths of the evergreen on the graves of dead children. The flower is sometimes associated with marriageโฆ
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