Tawny & Murray colourblindness

[Captain Blood]

Is that French sangria ?

No, but they go very well with duck, i believe 

[Silent Invader]

Just to complicate things, is not Tawny Port a light ruby colour?!?!

[westwaller]

The tawney colour that Stuart is after is depicted in one on the WOTR Ospreys as a ochre or light tan yellowish colour. I take this as being different to tawny orange which is more of an orange brown colour.

The reference to the colour of Tawney owls us a bit problematic as like most things in nature, Tawney owls vary in colour being brown, greyish brown or a light orange brown.

Isn't there a tawney that is green too?

[Arlequín]

Late to the party, but in the lack of Dulux colour cards back then, any colour that was not directly one thing or another worked. Added that in England those two colours were only seen on liveries and not arms, meant that there was less need to be precise in what was being depicted.

So Tawny was somewhere mid-point between yellow and orange and Murray somewhere between red and purple. As Hu Rhu says, Murray was supposed to be the colour of mulberries (or blood... in France it is called Sanguine), or as we might say 'maroon', but there was a wide variation in what one person saw compared to another... it even appears as 'brick red' in some places.

Short answer: Yes that standard has 'Murray' on it.  

Edit: 'Sangria' sort of means 'flowing blood', or 'bleeding', so that range of colours works too. Far be it for me to recommend comparing all of the various shades of Sangria in one sitting though.