Describing Color in the Ithkuil Successor Language

Color terms in TNIL describe an HSL color space. There are eight roots referring to hue with three stems apiece, meaning that each of the 24 hue lexemes cover 15° on the color wheel. Additionally, there are roots with stems for white and black, plus a root with stems for light, medium, and dark gray.

This converter divides color space into regions corresponding to each of the 11 color-related roots. Pick a color to see the corresponding TNIL root!

Note: TNIL is even more expressive than this, since it has suffixes for modifying color terms and ways of turning nouns and verbs into color terms by derivation. Maybe some day I'll add suffix recommendations to this thing!

For more information about TNIL color terms, check out the root listing! To learn more about the Ithkuil successor language, visit our subreddit!

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