Re: CHAT: Orange

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Grr... I hate this kind of remarks. Saying that indigo is a kind of blue
>is
> > like saying that orange is a kind of red or green is a kind of blue.
>
>Well, in *English*, indigo IS a kind of blue, whereas orange is not a
>kind of red.  But, in some languages (like Uatakassi :-) ), orange *IS*
>a kind of red.
>
> > Blue stops on the spectrum where indigo begins.
>
>Interesting.  You actually perceive indigo as separate from blue?
>
>I, on the other hand, used to perceive pink as a kind of red.  In fact,
>I still see it as being closely related to red.  I still don't really
>think it really deserves to be called a distinct color, at least, not as
>much as orange or green or whatnot.
I do usually think of pink as a separate colour, but I agree it's less of an
"independent" colour than is, say, orange.
>
>And as for the rainbow, how on Earth do they get 7 colors out of it?  I
>can only see, at most, 5 - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and of
>those, orange I rarely see.
The classical list's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

On a good rainbow, I expect to see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
I guess those six are the primary colours, as far as my mind is concerned.
Brown and pink are kind of semi-primary, black and white aren't proper
colours and the rest are just nuances.

                                                        Andreas

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