"All beautiful expressions are susceptible of more than one meaning. When a beautiful expression presents a meaning more beautiful than the author's own, it should be adopted." - J. Joubert Oeuvres from Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project
Today I am fixated on the color puce, I found this from a website of Regency colors-
One of the more obscure colors used in Regency novels is puce. It's a color nearly always treated with disdain but what color was it, really? It might help to know that the word puce comes, as so many others, from the French. Puce is the French word for flea! Yes, the color is a brownish-purple or a purplish-pink, the color of the blood-sucking flea; coagulated blood in other words. It may seem astonishing to the modern reader that one of the most popular colors in 1805e. was puce.
So- if you want to make puce: RGB (204,136,153) or Pantone 19-1518 TC
Here's my puce from a cheesy MS- program
