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Don't use yellow then. Palettes made of rainbow primary colors don't look good anyway.
by edflsafoiewq 4y ago
Don't use yellow then. Palettes made of rainbow primary colors don't look good anyway.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoTraffic lights may want a word. ("but that's not yellow!": weirdly, we know that, but we call it yellow anyway).
- mcv 4y agoIn Dutch we call it orange.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoWhich is probably closer in terms of most western experiences of the primary/secondary colours, but still pretty wrong--just on the other side of what it really is. The light between red and green is almost universally the tertiary (RYB) or quaternary (RGB) colour amber, sitting between yellow and orange =)
- mkehrt 4y agoNote that primary color terms are language-specific and their ranges vary by culture. It very well could be "oranje" in Dutch!
- mcv 4y agoTrue. Amber is not really a colour term that's often used in Dutch; most would actually see amber as a kind of orange.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoAs Dutchman myseklf: the official colour as "the traffic light is:" are rood, oranje, and groen (i.e red, orange, and green). As actual colours if you have to pick them from a Dutch colour chart with Dutch colour names tough, they'd be rood, oranje-geel, and blauw-groen (red, orange-yellow, and blue-green). No tertiary or quaternaries for us, we love them hyphenated colours.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoAs a Dutchman myself, who has stolen his fair share of traffic lights (who hasn't): still only what we call it because of the traffic-light-ness, if you had to write down the actual colour used, or had to point at it on a colour wheel, we'd pick "orange-yellow".
- edflsafoiewq 4y agoThe aesthetics of a traffic light...
- robin_reala 4y agoDo we? en-GB has it as amber. See “Traffic light signals” on https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/light-signals-controlling-traffic https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/light-signals-c...