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”?

  • @WhiteTiger
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    61 year ago

    There’s a difference between linguistic simplicity and color blindness.

    • @[email protected]
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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.