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Modern colours are a katakana jungle.

With the advent of colour computer mixers it is possible to make any colour one wants. The advertisers are forever changing and creating names for these colours. If one picks the right name and that colour becomes popular, perhaps because some starlet-pop-idol creature wears an outfit in that particular colour, then the company stands to make millions from the paint or the dye. Colour is business. 

Modern colour is katakana. Often one can guess the name of the colour, but sometimes not even the word ‘obscure’ can describe it. Anyway, here goes: