| Without speaking a word, he tried to follow Sarayu from place to place within the garden but found himself easily distracted by the blends of colors: currant and vermilion reds, tangerine and chartreuse divided by platinum and fuchsia, as well as innumerable shades of greens and browns. [2, pp. 131-132] |
A currant is a little round berry of maroon-ish pink-ish color that grows on shrubs of the genus Ribes. In the case above, however, they are clearly referring to the color of currants.
This is what the colors look like:
| Currant | |||
| Vermilion | |||
| Tangerine | |||
| Chartreuse | or | ||
| Platinum | |||
| Fuchsia |
Somehow, this table doesn't do any of those colors any justice. Seeing these colors in real life is quite a different experience, as they are all colors I consider to be dramatic. Note, also, that there is a distinction between "web chartreuse" (which appears lime green-ish), and traditional chartreuse, which is more yellow.
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