Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

* Adam Walker said on 2004-04-22 14:05:15 +0200
> --- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> > Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> >
> > > Torquoise is a fancy name for bluish greens and greenish blues.
> > > Beige is a species  of brown. Aqua is Latin for water - I'm not
> > > even sure what colour it's supposed to refer to.
> >
> > "Aqua" is short for "aquamarine" and is similar to turquoise: the
> > color whose focus is in the overlap between blue and green.
>
> Aqua is most assuredly neither fish nor fowl.  To me it is a distinct
> area of the spectrum.  As a child I wondered why no one ever nemed the
> clearly visible aqua stripe in a rainbow, yet eveyone insisted there
> were two purple stripes which they named violet and indigo.
Sounds like what I'd call "turkis" then (though cyan might be more
correct). Btw, I didn't learn about "rosa" (pink) until I started kiddie
school, it was light red to me before that. And I knew purple before
violet, and greens to me were quite dark, pale greens being sorted with
yellow... Indigo being its own color is humbug, it's a nice dark blue
with a hint of purple. Beige, now that is pale yellow khaki, the browns
being separated into the khakis (pale browns), redbrowns and browns
(dark browns). I (verbally) fought with the teachers quite a bit in
first grade I remember, as I insisted on sorting colors quite
differently from the rainbow but I can't remember the entire order...
white, yellow... but was red or green next? The browns was with the
blacks and purple between red and blue...


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