The Green-Armytage "Colour Alphabet" was created as part of a 2010 paper by colour expert Paul Green-Armytage, called "A Colour Alphabet and the Limits of Colour Coding" (link).

The reason for this study was a claim by author Rudolph Arnheim that an alphabet composed of 26 colours instead of shapes would be unusable.

The colour alphabet, tested in competition with other alphabets made up of unfamiliar shapes and faces (like the Dingbats font), was read more quickly than the others.

Fun fact: the colour alphabet is made up of “nameable colours”. The names were chosen so that each colour begins with the letter of the alphabet they represent.

made by @bramk