Minecraft block or luxury paint color? Can you tell which is which?

There sure are a lot of blocks in Minecraft, huh? Some are basic, like dirt, gravel, or wood, but it doesn’t take long to start encountering more exotically named blocks like “Horn Coral,” “Pink Terracotta,” and “Mossy Cobblestone.”

While perusing the list of 700 or so Minecraft blocks earlier today—this is the sort of thing I do on my lunch break—I thought the names of some of them sounded quite a bit like the fanciful monikers given to luxury paint colors. Tell me a block called “Cyan Terracotta” doesn’t also sound like a paint color you’d find at Dulux or Farrow & Ball or some other fancy-schmancy paint company.