2000 years
2000s: the life really low, the hair with the frieze, glittery gloss and that inevitable pencil tiffany color, because if you are my age you will certainly have lived through the years in which: if it is "tiffany color” is beautiful!
As a former teenager of the 2000s, and a child enchanted in front of the Giotto pencil nomenclated with the name of "Paolo Veronese green", here is my post on this color that is the protagonist of the latest trends
Green or Blue?
What do they have in common the eggs of a bird and the famous jewelry brands? Can a color be covered by Copyright?
All these questions have as protagonist the Tiffany color which I will tell you about below.
Is the Tiffany color a green or a blue?
Unlike many other shades that we almost unconsciously classify in one color range rather than another, the answer to the question whether Tiffany belongs to the greens or blues is not immediate, and as always, in the semantics linked to color there is no right or wrong answer because it is dictated by our perception.
I don't have a precise answer as far as I'm concerned, but I recognize that I inadvertently happen to call him"tiffany-green” and pausing to reflect I understood why.
As a serial consumer of any type of pigment, for a long time as a child I colored with “Giotto Di Natura” pencils they were all wood color engraved with the number and name of the color in the tone of the lead, and although the texture wasn't buttery and spreadable enough, I always used them because the alchemy that was created in the association between color and name was irresistible (in my beloved Stabilo professional the name of the color unfortunately was not there…).
Among the Giottos, the one that literally obsessed me was this number 12, the mysterious "Green Paolo Veronese” that was messing with mine Nomenclature of colors as halfway between a green and a blue, very beautiful and vibrant but practically absent in nature and above all the proponent of my puzzle: "but who is this Paolo Veronese???”.
At the time there was no Google, so it was only years later that I discovered that Mr. Paolo had been a painter, and up to this point we would have arrived even by intuition, and that he had been the discoverer of this very intense green, between malachite, emerald and jade.
It is indeed a very decisive green, so much so that in English it is referred to as "Viridian" from Latin "viridis" precisely green, a color much closer to green rather than aquamarine like that accursed Giotto pencil, which no, Paolo Veronese is not green at all!
Tiffany, eggs and jewels.
Let's go back to Tiffany's and think about how curious the link between eggs and jewels is: both in the case of Faberge eggs that in those of the Turdus Migratorius or American blackbird thanks to which the history of color was built Tiffany and of the jewelery brand of the same name.
In 1845 the New York jeweler Charles Tiffany he chose a lighter shade than that of the American blackbird's eggs to identify his homonymous brand; the choice, it has been handed down, fell on this color because the characteristic of being tiny, rare and very precious of the eggs had to represent theuniqueness of the jewels.
In reality, the actual motivation is to be found in the fashion very popular among victorian brides of the time to give domestic workers a brooch with a turquoise stone, so this stone and especially this color became very popular.
Today we refer to this color with "tiffany color”, in fact the tint has a real pantone of reference: the Pantone 1837, and the number is not by chance as it is the year of foundation of the company, and in some states the color 1837 appears to be a registered trademark of the brand protected in copyright exclusive.
Mr Tiffany invented a color, just like in the case of painter Yves Klein its blue or the Nanosystem Vantablack (follow my Reels with curiosities about colors to find out more…).
I would add at this point that the maison that invented it refers to this tint with "BlueTiffany” classifying him precisely among the blues.
Choose the Tiffany
The Tiffany color is enhanced when combined with strong and vibrant colours: undoubtedly a very refined pastel nuance which is inevitable in Party Dresses and Ceremony look.
A color that communicates calm, peace, tranquility and refinement, sensations that resonate within me powerfully at the sight of this color and that make me count it among those colors that, even if I don't wear, strike me and they fascinate.
