In our amazing and fabulously beautiful world, there are hundreds of all kinds of colors and thousands of their shades, which are sometimes very difficult to distinguish. We are all familiar with red, white, green, blue. But, for example, not every person will determine the color of a “flea in love”, not only far from fine art, but also a venerable painter. The same can be said about the color "frog in a swoon." This name is sonorous, a little ridiculous, maybe someone uplifting and very easy to remember. But what does it mean? Where is this color used? How did he appear? It is not difficult to answer all these questions, it is enough to just “walk” through the corresponding sites on the Internet. It’s much harder to say whether the frogs really faint. What color are they? There is no answer to this question at all, since these amphibians are many species, and each has unique skin integuments.
Extravagance at the Easel
It should be said that the color, or rather, the shade “frog in a swoon” is not the only one among the most unusual and unexpected.
Now you can find no less funny names for tones and midtones in the palette of colors:
- "Frightened mouse."
- "The eyes of a partridge."
- "Goose droppings."
- "Children of Edward."
- "Paris mud."
- "Blue."
- "Smart."
Each of them can be called more commonly, for example, “Edward’s children” - it’s pinkish, “toad in love” - greenish, “gendarme” - blue. But such familiar and understandable characteristics of the color scheme seem boring to many. Contemporary creators of the beautiful are not interested in working with them. It’s a completely different matter when fashion designers create a dress or suit the color of a fainted frog or, for example, the color of a “brooding flea”. Agree, only this has its own zest. And if you add such innovations to the style, you can safely count on success. If consumers of finished products (designers, tailors, fashion designers) are satisfied with what the manufacturers offer them, then the painters themselves create incredible shades, mixing up the colors available in their arsenal. In some paintings, what shades you will not see! True, all of them until now remained nameless.
Background of unusual colors
You are mistaken if you think that only a modern person has an indefatigable imagination in inventing all kinds of originalities. Our ancestors also had such talents. This is confirmed by the fact that even during the reign of Pyotr Fedorovich, the grandson of our illustrious Peter the Great, fabric of the color “thigh of a frightened nymph” was taken on a lining for military uniforms.
Naturally, no one knew exactly what the nymph had, and no one saw the nymphs alive. However, tailors logically assumed that the skin color of the nymphs should be almost the same as that of ordinary girls, that is, pinkish. Perhaps, with the fright of these mythical creatures, the skin changed a little shade and became similar in color to the fabric for the uniforms of officers. And perhaps such a color in some dye turned out by chance, for example, due to an oversight of workers who violated the proportions of the coloring powder. Nobody will say this now. But we have a unique opportunity to create masterpieces using paints of a nice and slightly intriguing shade. It should be noted that the pinkish fabric, so named so unusual, went only on sewing the uniforms of officers. For ordinary soldiers, the material used was simpler, and its shade had a more understandable name from the people - the color of the “thigh of a frightened Masha”. Although, perhaps, this is all just the fiction of some joker. But back to our frog in a swoon.
origin of name
It is known for certain that such a color name was invented in the popular Yandex company. Among its developers there are people who seek to bring something unusual to our world, able to cheer up and at the same time be useful. To the question, and what is their benefit, we can answer that the names of tones, not much different from each other, but having piquant or simply unusual names, help to facilitate their search. In addition to the above, in Yandex you can find colors:
- "Merry Widow."
- "The Spider Preparing to Kill."
- "Fleas in prenatal fever."
- "Flea back."
- "Shaggy mouse."
- "Crushed fleas" and many others.
They are invented, firstly, so that they are better remembered, and secondly, so that people smile more and not be gloomy.
Description
Do not think that exclusive names are only entertainment for developers. No, everything is serious at Yandex. Here, each shade is assigned a special code. For example, the color “Abdel Kerim's beard” (also a shade of gray) has a code of d5d5d5, the color of a “frog in a swoon” has 7b917b and so on. What does the “frog” shade look like? Some believe that it is close to gray, others - to khaki, others - to the swamp, fourth say that several colors were mixed in it. The result was a cross between gray, reed, khaki, swamp, stone-gray.
Here it is, the color of a “frog in a swoon. The photo (see above) demonstrates it more clearly. Other epithets can be described as restrained, calm, strict, elegant. If you try to find the color of the “frog in a swoon” on foreign information resources, you are unlikely to succeed, because such unusual colors are only our Russian know-how. Residents of other countries do not yet know anything about their existence.
Where can i use
It is important not only to come up with something original, but also to know where to apply this innovation. Otherwise, everyone will soon forget about him. If we talk about clothes, then for almost all life situations, the color of a “frog in a swoon” is suitable. The palette of colors for designers is very diverse, but only some shades are appropriate in everyday life, and for special occasions, and for women, and for men. From fabrics of this color, strict classic men's and women's suits, knitted sweaters, skirts, trousers, shorts will ideally look. A calm gray-green-swamp tone blends perfectly with white, which adds elegance along with it. And in combination with a bright scarf or handbag, a dress or a suit made of fabric of the color “frog in a swoon” will look refined and stylish. In addition to clothing, this shade of gray can be used to create accessories, design solutions for the interior, to create garden compositions. Perhaps, only for children's little things such a tone would not be entirely appropriate.
What does a frog look like in nature that fainted
Perhaps among the readers of this article there are those who are interested to know in real life what color the frog is in a swoon. Note that in nature such a phenomenon does not exist. Therefore, it should be said that the dreamers from Yandex are very far from the truth.
Frogs are amazing amphibians with many unique features. So, they are able to fall into suspended animation, that is, life in them can almost freeze if adverse climatic conditions occur. Another interesting property of them is the process of transformation from eggs to tadpoles, and only then into an adult. The skin of frogs is equipped with sensitive receptors, thanks to which it can change its color depending on the temperature of air or water, humidity, and light. There are some species that can change their color like a chameleon. But in fainting, their color does not change, because this does not happen with frogs - their nervous system is so arranged. Even during cruel scientific experiments, these "creatures of God" were constantly conscious, regardless of their pain.
What are the frogs that don't faint
It is difficult to answer why the jokers from the Yandex company gave the name “frog in a swoon” to colors with shades of gray and swamp. Indeed, in nature, these tailless amphibians are of the most unexpected and very beautiful colors - bright yellow, orange, red, blue, striped, with spots, with patterns and even completely transparent. Interestingly, but the representatives of these species, if they could faint, what would they become? Perhaps their beautiful skin would hardly have changed their bright colors to a faded gray color. A bright color is needed for these creatures to warn of their toxicity and thereby protect themselves. It’s dangerous to touch some of them.
The Frog Princess
The beautiful amphibian species described above are mainly residents of overseas countries. Our Russian frogs do not differ in their special charm. Few of us have ever seen these effervescent gray-green “beauties” invitingly croaking in a pond or on a river. To somehow rehabilitate Russian frogs, Yandex came up with the color “princess frog”, which has a greenish tint with gold, and “toad in love”, that is, bright green.
Fleas, mice, spiders
Not only toads and frogs are popular with the creators of new funny items. Birds, flowers, fleas, mice, and even spiders are also not ignored. Choosing a shade for yourself, you need to be careful and know the exact name of the shade from the palette of colors, because among them there are, for example, the colors of the thrush egg and the wandering thrush egg; fleas thoughtful, fainted, dreamy and crushed; white, scared, shaggy and cashmere mice. Who knows, perhaps soon not only the color of the frog in a swoon will appear, but also some other, for example, a frog-frog.
