greerwatson | Sunshine Challenge 2020 - Prompt 4 (Green)

As someone who likes green, I look at it in comparison with other colours, and I think it gets sadly short-changed. I mean, just consider this:

YELLOW			YELLOW
ORANGE			GREEN
RED			GREEN
BROWN			GREEN

I mean, sure, we have names for the different greens. I'd call the lighter one "lime" and the muted one "olive". But they are still considered to be types of green. Suppose you had T-shirts striped like this:

The first one is striped in orange & yellow, the second in red & yellow, and the third in brown & yellow. However, as far as the others are concerned, if you were given any one of them on its own, you'd probably describe it as being green & yellow.

Of course, we do have names for specific shades of green: ivy green, spruce green, emerald green, spinach green and so on; but these are comparable to "canary yellow", "daffodil yellow", "sunshine yellow", and the like. The point is that lime is as different as orange, and olive as different as brown; but neither is considered to be a totally separate colour.

In fact, it gets more complicated when we look at colours that lie between lime (on the one hand) and orange (on the other hand) and pure yellow. Colours that are almost yellow.

You can run a sequence of interpolating these shades between yellow and either orange or (lime) green:

But if you compare them instead with red and its equivalent shade of green, they look practically yellow! (But not quite.)

When you look at them all together, you can see that they're the missing part of the sequence: you need these additional colours in order to get a proper gradation.

They don't have separate names, though. There really aren't enough names for colours.

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I seem to recall there was a period when pink included some colors we'd consider yellow adjacent-because of the pigments used and differing because of compounding/etc.

Green weakness I think is the most common manifestation of Not Quite Colorblind, though I've mostly caught men being convinced that lighter tones of purple were blue.

There is of course chartreuse. And the Green Fairy of absinthe.

Turquoise is easier to talk about having a name, which distinguishes it from lapis.

"I seem to recall there was a period when pink included some colors we'd consider yellow adjacent-because of the pigments used and differing because of compounding/etc."

Do you mean this? I knew that the flowers called "pinks" were so named because of their pinked (i.e. fringed) edges—making their name a derivative of a verb that I'm familiar with from the context of sewing. However, I'd no idea that the colour of the flowers is the reason we call the hue "pink".

Yep. And interestingly, I think that murky yellow-green might be the undercoat that allows for building up good peaches and pinched cheeks complexions.

And, Japanese gained a version of the word for pink from the Dutch, and also use the word white in their construction for a Western-styled dress shirt. Such that pinkwhiteshirt is a gloss for something that exists but Why Words!

Sweet William, which is another dianthus, is quite a bit more strongly hued than carnations (I'm not up on all the subtleties of how what was how when) and their pinking is even more noticeable with being flatter flowers.

But yeah, this is how English sloshes along.

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