Eye Color

Brown
Acorn – weathered nut brown
Autumn leaf – reddish brown to brown
Biscuit – lightly toasted brown
Bronze – reddish brown or coppery brown
Burnt almond – dark brown
Camel – medium brown
Congo – muddy or dark brown, after the African river
Dun – dull grayish brown
Dusky – dark, shadowy, as in deepening twilight
Dusty road – light brown if dry, dark brown after a rain shower
Earth – broad variability, the entire spectrum of brown
Ebony - very dark brown or black
Elk – medium to dark brown
Fawn – pale, yellowish brown
Fox – reddish-brown
Grand Canyon – borad variability, from light to dark browns to reddish-browns
Grizzly bear – variable; brownish, grayish, or yellowish
Gunmetal – black
Hawk brown – yellowish-brown, medium brown or grayish-brown
Hazel – reddish brown or yellowish-brown, usually flecked with green or gray
Honey – yellowish-brown or golden brown
Humus – rich soil brown; dark brown or black
Kelp – seaweed brown
Leather – medium to dark brown; reddish-brown
Lentil – light to medium brown
Lignite - brownish-black
Mahogany – dark reddis-brown or yellowish-brown
Mill pond – deep brown or black
Mink – dark brown
Mississippi – muddy brown, as found in parts of the river
Moccasin – same as leather
Molasses – usually dark brown
Mottled – flecked, streaked, splotted or blotchy
Mud – broad variability, from light to dark red
Nubian – medium brown
Nut-brown – broad variability, from yellowish to dark brown
Obsidian – very dark or black
Olive – dark brown or black
Otter – medium to dark brown
Raisin – reddish-brown or black
Raven – black
Rio Grande – muddy
Russet – yellowish or reddish brown
Sandy – yellowish, grayish, or medium brown
Sienna – yellowish-brown; Burnt sienna is a reddish-brown
Soot – grayish-brown or black
Sorrel – light brown or light reddish-brown; dried autumn leaf
Sparrow brown – grayish-brown
Tarnished penny- reddish-brown
Taupe – dark brownish-gray; moleskin
Tawny – brownish-yellow or tan
Umber – the color of shadow
Weathered acorn – medium brown

Blue, Violet, Gray and Green

Apple green – light green
Azure – sky blue
Baby blue – very light to very pale greenish- or purplish-blue
Bittersweet nightshade – purplish-blue, similar to a passion flower
Blueberry – light to medium blue
Blue jay – light blue
Bottle green – dark to grayish-green
Celestial blue – sky blue
Cobalt – deep, vivid blue; also strong greenish-blue
Cornflower – blue or purple
Denim – the color of jeans (what did you think it’d be?)
Dove gray – grayish blue or grayish brown
Electric blue – bright neon blue
Emerald – strong yellowish green
Gentian – blue
Grape – blue or purple
Holly green - medium to dark green
Hyacinth – deep purplish blue to vivid violet
Ice – very light blue
Indigo – dark blue to grayish, purplish-blue
Iridescent – having a rainbow-like or shifting color scheme, depending on the angle they’re seen from
Iris – light purple
Jade – pale green
Jungle – leaf green
Kingfisher – blue-grey
Lagoon blue – broad variability from light crystal blue to dark blue
Lagoon green – same as lagoon blue for green
Lapis lazuli – sky to deep blue
Larkspur – blue to medium purple
Lavender – pale to light purple or very light, very pale purple
Lightning – thunderbolt blue; light, silver hue
Lilac – pale or light to medium purple
Mauve – brilliant violet or purple, or medium reddish-purple
Midnight blue – very dark blue
Misty blue – very light blue
Morning glory – purplish blue, same as passionflower
Moss – medium to dark green
Nordic blue – light to medium blue
Olive green – light to medium green
Passionflower – purplish-blue
Peacock blue – medium to dark or strong greenish-blue; also irisdescent blue
Pea green – yellowish green
Periwinkle – purplish-blue
Plum – dark purple to deep reddish-purple
Powder blue – medium to pale blue, or purplish-blue
Prussian blue – medium to dark hue
Rainforest green – misty leaf green
Royal purple – medium to strong violet, or deep purple
Sapphire – blue
Sea green – broad variability, medium to very dark green
Sea smoke – very light silvery blue or gray
Slate – dark gray to bluish gray
Smoke – gray-blue
Smoked glass – gray or dark gray
Snow shadow – shadowy blue
Star – twinkling light blue or green
Steel – dark gray to purplish gray
Storm sea – very dark blue to dark gray
Teal – medium or dark bluish-green to greenish-blue
Terre verte – French term for “green earth”; an olive green
Twilight – dark purple
Violet – reddish-blue to purplish-blue
Virginia bluebell – blue to purplish-blue
Wild lupine – light to medium blue
Wisteria blue – purplish

Misc
Bloodshot – red and irritated
Cataract – a clouding of the lens
Glass eye – a false eye of any color
Helerochroma iridis – a condition or having one brown eye and one blue eye; occurs approximately one
in a thousand
Nystagmus – a disorder in which one or both eyes jerk or move involuntarily, caused by brain lsions,
inflammation, alchohol or drug abuse; sometimes present congenitally
Variegated – flecked with various colors
Walleyed – having a whitish or grayish eye or eyes
Yellowed scleras – yellowed whites of the eyes, sometimes seen in older people