Colorful Allusions
June 11, 2008 7:58 AM Subscribe
Colorful Allusions
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes.
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes.
Red: Many people will attempt to make off-color jokes in this thread.
posted by iamkimiam at 8:30 AM on June 11, 2008
posted by iamkimiam at 8:30 AM on June 11, 2008
It's very cute, actually. I recall being bored to tears in high school when an English teacher spent most of a class on Fitzgerald's symbolic use of color in Gatsby, and this is perhaps a little bit of vindication for him.
chroma chroma
chroma chroma
chroma chameleon
red gold and green
red gold and gree-ee-ee-een
posted by cortex at 9:11 AM on June 11, 2008
chroma chroma
chroma chroma
chroma chameleon
red gold and green
red gold and gree-ee-ee-een
posted by cortex at 9:11 AM on June 11, 2008
I lopped a bit off the description up top, but if you click the colored boxes you're led to the color lovers' community (where Conley is a blogger) and a description of the carefully chosen hue.
posted by carsonb at 9:16 AM on June 11, 2008
posted by carsonb at 9:16 AM on June 11, 2008
I don't know why but I had to read also every single thing on this page... Maybe I am attracted to pretty colors?
posted by Mastercheddaar at 9:35 AM on June 11, 2008
posted by Mastercheddaar at 9:35 AM on June 11, 2008
Oh, okay. the clickthrough makes this worthwhile. On first PANTONE 15-1614 or FF9999, I thought it was a little weak.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:44 AM on June 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:44 AM on June 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
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posted by iamkimiam at 8:07 AM on June 11, 2008