| White | will match with ivory, pallid, silver, white, whitish |
| Cream | will match with cream, ivory, very pale yellow |
| Yellow | will match with amber, citrine, cream, golden, honey, saffron, sandy, straw, yellow, yellowish |
| Orange | will match with amber, apricot, orange, peach, saffron, vermilion |
| Red | will match with cinnabar, crimson, magenta, maroon, red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion |
| Pink | includes any shade of pink as well as the pinkish brown spore color of the Entolomataceae family, will match with flesh, incarnate, magenta, peach, pink, rose, salmon |
| Wine | will match with wine-colored, winy, vinaceous |
| Violet / Blue | will match with lavender, lilac, mauve, purple, violet, violaceous, blue, bluish, livid, turquoise, bluish green |
| Green / Olive | will match with green, greenish, olivaceous, olive, turquoise |
| Gray | will match with cinereous, dingy, drab, dusky, gray, grayish, silver, slate, slaty, fuliginous, fuscous, livid, smoky, sooty |
| Any Brown | will match with argillaceous, avellaneous, bay, bister, bistre, brick, brown, brownish, chestnut, cinnamon, clay, coffee, dingy, drab, ferruginous, foxy, fuliginous, fulvous, fuscous, hazel, honey, isabelline, rufous, rusty, russet, sienna, sepia, tawny, umber |
| Light Brown / Buff | a pale yellow toned with gray-brown, i.e. a dingy yellowish brown or very pale tan, will match with alutaceous, beige, buff, buffy, fawn, honey, leather, pinkish buff, sandy, tan |
| Yellow Brown | between buff and orange brown, will match with argillaceous, brownish yellow, clay, honey, isabelline, ochraceous, ochre, tawny, yellowish brown |
| Orange Brown / Cinnamon | between yellow brown and red brown; will match with foxy, tawny, fulvous, orange brown, cinnamon, pinkish cinnamon, argillaceous, clay-colored, fulvous, sayal-brown |
| Red Brown | will match with bay, brick, chestnut, ferruginous, maroon, raw sienna, rufous, rust, rusty, russet, cinnamon |
| Purple Brown / Wine Brown | will match with purple brown, violet brown, violaceous brown, wine brown, vinaceous brown |
| Olive Brown | will match with olive brown, olivaceous brown |
| Gray Brown | will match with fuscous, gray brown, grayish brown, avellaneous, wood brown, drab |
| Dark Brown | will match with blackish brown, chocolate brown, dark brown, fuscous, umber |
| Black | will match with black, blackish, sooty |