The most useful thing I've found for writing pony. · 3:26am Jul 4th, 2014
You know, I've been writing pony fanfiction for about two years now, and one of the things I've struggled with often in my writing is color. Ponies are so many different colors, its hard for me to figure out just how to describe them.
Until I realized I was being dumb and should have just looked up this page.
Seriously, this simple wikipedia list of colors is a bloody fantastic tool for helping figure out just what to color your pony characters. Tired of just calling a pony blue? Now you can call them duke blue! Is your character gray but you're not sure what shade of gray? Now you know that shits taupe!
Honestly I'm surprised it took me two years to even think of looking up an actual list of colors, and it makes me wonder how many others among us haven't tried something so simple, but dang if it doesn't help a ton when trying to figure out what to call a specific color shade without saying something like "it was a kind of off blue that was dark, but not that dark".
That's how I get my colors for the pony creator!
Without it Nota wouldn't look as she does.
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Oh Luna the memories of this thing. Found that a few months back with a friend of mine and confused the buck outta people by using the weirdest names we found for simple colors. Like puse and fuzzy wuzzy. Good times.
While not as useful for OCs, the MLP wikia actually links to a color website for all physical descriptions. You can learn all sorts of surprising little tidbits, such as how everyone's favorite book-horse isn't actually a lavender unicorn, but a pale mulberry unicorn (well, pale lightish gray mulberry actually, but that's a heck of a mouthful to have to write). Similarly Raindrops is no jasmine pegasus, but actually a light gold.
That said lavender and jasmine are more evocatively iconic words.
Likewise, when designing a new OC of my own. I usually just tweak things in pony maker until it all looks right to my eye, then link to the color sight from the MLP wikia, and input all my own values to find out what each color's name is. Though if I don't like the #1 option, I'll skip down the list until I find a similar color with a name I feel suits my purposes.
Byzantine is the best color. Use it to confuse people excessively! (Though I suppose ponies lacked a Byzantine Empire... Or did they?)