Lewis's color is one of those 'he really ought to know better' things; the rule of tincture goes back to the 1500s as a codified rule and way before that as a practice. It pretty much boils down to 'high contrast is GOOD'; you don't put white and yellow on top of each other and you don't put the darker colors (red, green, blue, black) on each other. One would think a medievalist would know this if only by osmosis from looking at the things.
Of course I enjoyed it; I adore your Golden Age fic! (and, y'know, the rest of it too, but especially Golden Age.)
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Date: 2011-06-12 08:13 pm (UTC)Lewis's color is one of those 'he really ought to know better' things; the rule of tincture goes back to the 1500s as a codified rule and way before that as a practice. It pretty much boils down to 'high contrast is GOOD'; you don't put white and yellow on top of each other and you don't put the darker colors (red, green, blue, black) on each other. One would think a medievalist would know this if only by osmosis from looking at the things.
Of course I enjoyed it; I adore your Golden Age fic! (and, y'know, the rest of it too, but especially Golden Age.)