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The human eye can distinguish millions of shades of color, subtly discriminating small differences of energy along the visual spectrum. No language, however, has words for more than about 1,000 of these, even with compounds and metaphors.
https://lithub.com/color-or-fruit-on-the-unlikely-etymology-of-orange/
@estherschindler
Back in the 80s, my dad worked in advertising, and he once tried to name a specific color "bum's tongue brown",... He described it as the color of the pale, waxy coating on the tongue of a homeless vagrant with poor dental hygiene...
(ew.)