Chromobear

Chromobear, The. Zamonian variety of the terrestrial thick-furred omnivores [Ursidae], powerful mammals up to six feet tall and endowed with the power of speech. Peculiar to the chromobear is its individual coloration. Each has coloured fur, but none is quite the same shade. Many chromobears are red, for example, but each displays its own variation of colour: brick red, copper, vermilion, scarlet, mahogany, poppy, purple, carmine, bronze pink, ruby or flamingo red. There are shades of yellow ranging from lemon to egg yolk and deep orange. A distinction may be drawn between straw-coloured, wam yellow. cobalt yellow. cadmium yellow, pale blond peroxide blond. auburn, honey-coloured, banana yellow, butter yellow, gold, amber, sulphur yellow, corn-coloured, raw sienna, flaxen, canary yellow, quince yellow, Norselander yellow, lemon-grass yellow,, Venetian yellow, pale yellow, dark yellow, and - of course - plain yellow. The fur of green chromobears ranges in colour from emerald and olive to jade, mignonette, and spinach green. Chromobears may also be yellowish green, bluegreen, moss green, pine-needle green, grass green, seaweed green, sea green, bottle green, mildew green, grey green, arsenical green, palm-leaf green, pea green, ivy green, and several thousand other shades of green. Blue chromobears probably display the greatest number of shades: indigo, azure, sapphire blue, cyanine, cobalt, ultramarine, royal blue, pale blue, cerulean blue, submarine blue, billow blue, ice blue, violet, forget-me-not blue, cornflower blue, gentian blue, lavender blue, turquoise, steel blue, plum, dove blue, midnight blue, alga blue, eye blue, blueberry blue, marine blue, china blue, blue-black, and manganese blue.This brings us to the mixed colours. There are, of course, countless combinations of the above colours which themselves produce new hybrid shades: violet, mauve, heliotrope, lilac, mallow, amethyst, Parma violet, cinnamon, chocolate, minium, chrome orange, salmon, apricot, Florinthian copper, pale lilac, ivory, pearl white, smoke grey, cinnabar, cyanite, gold beryl, citrine, euclase, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, demantoid, dioptase, moldavite, lapis lazuli, topaz, zircon, axinite, hyacinth, titanite, spinel, azurite, malachite, coral, carnelian, an meeschaum. Finally there are colours that exist only in Zamonia: neoline, cyromain, zamonite, elf white, goblin yellow, zant, opalite, ghoul green, chromolinth, pherm, voltigork, melphine, harbazinth, and Nightingale black. When mixed with traditional pigments, these produce so-called Zamonian duocolours such as neolite green, neolite