I always learned “ROYGBIV” as the colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet.

What’s up with the last two? Isn’t indigo basically just dark blue? Why is it violet and not purple? Can’t it just be “ROYGBP”?

    • Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Well in my case it’s more about where to draw the line between blue and green.

      I can differentiate the colours but just still call things blue that my GF (and most of the rest of the world, apart from Japanese and the german dialect I grew up with as it seems) already calls green.

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        1 year ago

        This is a running joke in my house. My daughters like to wear a lot of blue/green shirts. Apparently I always guess it wrong.

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          1 year ago

          Interesting, I didn’t know I had a form of colour blindness until I was messing around with the accessibility settings on a Samsung Galaxy S8. Suddenly everything looked so much better and I could immediately tell the difference between shades.

          Having said that I still struggle with Coral. Is it pink or orange ?