Color Names

O Fortuna

Faded rose, like the medieval manuscripts Orff set to dramatic music.

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O Fortuna is a pale pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

O Fortuna

O Fortuna

"O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written in the early 13th century. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman mythology.

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O Fortuna (Orff)

"O Fortuna" is a movement in Carl Orff's 1935–36 cantata Carmina Burana. It begins the opening and closing sections, both titled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi". The cantata is based on a medieval Goliardic poetry collection of the same name, from which the poem "O Fortuna" provides the words sung in the movement. It was well received during its time, and entered popular culture through use in other musical works, advertisements, and soundtracks beginning in the late 20th century.

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O

O is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is o, plural oes.

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Fortuna

Fortuna, sometimes anglicized as Fortune, is the goddess of luck or fortune in Roman religion. She came to represent life's capriciousness, and was a goddess of fate. In antiquity she was also known by the epithet Automatia. Her Greek equivalent is Tyche.

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