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There are a lot of color words you can use in your writing to make your descriptions more vivid and interesting to the reader. Here are some well-known color words (and a color sample to go along with each:
| COLOR NAME: | COLOR SAMPLE: |
| red | |
| green | |
| blue | |
| yellow | |
| orange | |
| black | |
| white | |
| gray | |
| magenta | |
| cyan | |
| chartreuse | |
| maroon | |
| olive | |
| gold | |
| lemon | |
| purple | |
| lapis blue | |
| aqua | |
| aquamarine | |
| azure | |
| beige | |
| bisque | |
| blueviolet | |
| brown | |
| chocolate | |
| crimson | |
| firebrick | |
| fuchsia | |
| hotpink | |
| indigo | |
| khaki | |
| lavender | |
| limegreen | |
| navy | |
| orchid | |
| salmon | |
| sienna | |
| skyblue | |
| turquoise | |
Symbols
Here are some commonly used symbols which you should be familiar with:
$ dollar sign @ at sign
# hash mark % percent sign
& and symbol = equal sign
? question mark + plus sign
* asterisk > greater than
< less than ^ carot
~ tilde ! exclamation mark
- dash _ underscore
/ slash : colon
¢ cent sign © copyright symbols
® registered symbol ¶ paragraph sign
™ trademark symbol ÷ division sign