With this dictionary, individuals and professionals alike including academics, advertisers, architects, artists, beauticians, colorists, colormen, craftsmen, decorators, designers, entrepreneurs, fashionistas, illustrators, innovators, marketers, painters, scientists, students and others now have anytime access to a credible, trusted, and reliable lexical partner to help in engaging, exploring, discovering, learning, maneuvering, referencing, trafficking, verifying and working within and around the world of color, colors, and colored words.

This colorific repository, which has well over 500 lexically verifiable individual colors which are mostly defined in their actual colors and spread over 400 pages strong, is organized and presented in abecedarian format and includes three special bonus sections: Nouns Only, Adjectives Only, and Verbs Only. Some of the entries, which span almost every area, discipline, or field, also include parenthesized boldfaced guidance as to where they are primarily used, as in anthropology, art, astronomy, biology, botany, broadcasting, cartography, chemistry, color science, computer games, computer graphics, computing, crystallography, data visualization, dentistry, dermatology, digital imaging, electronics, entomology, gemology, graphic arts, image editing, lithography, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, mineralogy, ophthalmology, optics, ornithology, painting, pathology, physics, psychology, photoengraving, photography, printing, publishing, television, urology, visual arts, and zoology.

Additionally, most colors and certain colored words are assigned a six-digit alphanumeric hexadecimal code (hex code) that allows for precise color comparison, matching, classification, confirmation or reproduction on any digital platform or elsewhere.

About the Author

Peter Isaacs is a former first team all-American soccer player, a former finalist for the Hermann Award (American collegiate soccer's equivalent to the Heisman Award), a former professional soccer player, and a graduate of Howard University in Washington D.C. Born and raised in Jamaica, Peter went to Wolmer's preparatory and high schools in Kingston where his lifetime love affair with words and the English language began before leaving at the tender age of seventeen to attend Howard University on a full scholarship. A quintessential and agelong logophile, he is a voracious reader and researcher who over the last sixteen years has diligently compiled The Logophile's Collection, a comprehensively organized and thematic repository of words that cover almost every area, field, or sphere of life. An athlete turned lexicographer, Peter has also compiled The Color Bible, a soon to be published organized collection of lexically verifiable colors and colored words in addition to the Dictionary of Colors and Colored Words.He is the father of three girls, Hadiya, Alexandria, and Amelia.

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