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My daughter was watching Blue's Clues. They were doing color combinations (red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, etc). They then also did a further step,
by ecshafer 6mo ago
My daughter was watching Blue's Clues. They were doing color combinations (red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, etc). They then also did a further step, blue + green = cyan, and did green + yellow = chartreuse. Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct.
- gdwatson 6mo ago> Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct. You need to get into either fishing (chartreuse lures are common) or cocktails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) .
- coffeeling 6mo agoThe funny part about color spaces being that you can't make (pure) cyan out of green and blue, which is exactly why CMYK is used over RYB in inks. (I mostly think about colours in Hue-Saturation-Value terms, and a hue wheel of blue-cyan-green-yellow-orange-red-purple)
- noahchen 6mo agoFor subtractive colors (dyes) you're right. For additive (light), green and blue make cyan (Hex: #00FFFF)
- Suppafly 6mo agoI only know chartreuse from fishing lures.
- refactor_master 6mo agoI only know chartreuse from the liquor. I thought it was green though.
- tmtvl 6mo agoThere is yellow Chartreuse as well. I seem to recall preferring the yellow, though it's been over a decade, so I can't remember how either one tastes.
- natebc 6mo agoSame. Dad: Hey, what rig did we catch that king on? Me: Live pogey with a chartreuse minnow.
- excalibur 6mo ago> When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue. I still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.
- red369 6mo agoI agreed with you, and then went to the Wikipedia pages for both. I might have changed my mind now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)
- adornKey 6mo agoPurple has a lot more red. (157, 0, 255) vs. (128, 0, 255). Good to have learned something today...
- adornKey 6mo agoI think using violet as a name for the entire color-range around (~128, 0, 255) is also common. So in a sense purple is an element of the violet color-range. But as points they are distinct. I think purple is more specific - as a color-range it'd cover less area.
- cpburns2009 6mo agoI think of purple as encompassing both indigo (blueish purple) and violet (pinkish purple).