"I'm honestly dreading the blue-vs-indigo debate that's about to rage."
Well, as you're a mod for the Sunshine Challenge, I guess you know how the spectrum is being sliced. Giving you fair warning....
I'm planning on making at least two posts next time: one for "turquoise" and one for "blue". As for indigo (which to me is only a shade between blue and purple): I'll have a few words to say when it gets its turn.
You know, if Newton really did mean "blue" to mean a lighter colour closer to turquoise than blue, and then dragged in "indigo" because he needed a word for the darker colour, then his use of colour terms was closer to Russian or Japanese than modern English. At any rate, I've had a run-in or two with those who don't consider "turquoise" to be a basic colour. (Tune in next time for the thrilling details.)
Like Newton, I've sometimes felt compelled to drag in a few novel colour terms in order to label distinctions. For instance, I'll often use "gold" to refer to the golden-orange shades in the last diagram; and "chartreuse" to refer to the golden-greens. However, I'm reasonably certain that other people who use the latter term don't necessarily apply it to the same shade of green. (Oh, just wait till we get to "violet"!)
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Well, as you're a mod for the Sunshine Challenge, I guess you know how the spectrum is being sliced. Giving you fair warning....
I'm planning on making at least two posts next time: one for "turquoise" and one for "blue". As for indigo (which to me is only a shade between blue and purple): I'll have a few words to say when it gets its turn.
You know, if Newton really did mean "blue" to mean a lighter colour closer to turquoise than blue, and then dragged in "indigo" because he needed a word for the darker colour, then his use of colour terms was closer to Russian or Japanese than modern English. At any rate, I've had a run-in or two with those who don't consider "turquoise" to be a basic colour. (Tune in next time for the thrilling details.)
Like Newton, I've sometimes felt compelled to drag in a few novel colour terms in order to label distinctions. For instance, I'll often use "gold" to refer to the golden-orange shades in the last diagram; and "chartreuse" to refer to the golden-greens. However, I'm reasonably certain that other people who use the latter term don't necessarily apply it to the same shade of green. (Oh, just wait till we get to "violet"!)